The social consequences of digital inequality
How they and their parties would address inequality in our society is a favourite topic for most politicians, especially as the general election draws ever nearer. But it’s unlikely many would-be MPs will address digital inequality, a factor increasingly recognised as having profound effects on how people live their lives – and the subject of a new article in the journal Information, Communication and Society . The international team of scholars behind the research concludes that digital inequalities, defined broadly in