Here we will look at background sources of Digital Inequality to get a grasp of its origin. To understand digital inequality we must first look back at it’s first sightings of it and what was the cause of it’s come around.
- Bonney Norman, Komolafe Olufemi, Tait Elizabeth “Challenging Digital Inequalities: Barriers & Prospects” IGI Global, 2007, https://go-gale-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CCX2865200023&docType=Topic+overview&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2865200023&searchId=R1&userGroupName=cuny_nytc&inPS=true “They are initially taken up by richer households that can afford the new devices at relatively high initial prices, then gradually percolate down the class social structure and eventually become more generally adopted as they become more efficient and cheaper.