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Digital divide & challenges to implementation

Negotiating the net (pdf 255kb)

The paper uses a framework called "critical negotiation issues" which identifies four issues of contestation affecting Internet diffusion in South Africa between 1990-2003.

The goal is to counter the technology driven analysis that dominates the field by looking at social forces and the role of competing interest groups in shaping Internet diffusion.

 

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