La nueva frontera de la desigualdad digital: la
brecha participativa
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2016
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Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas
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En este trabajo estudiamos la relación entre participación digital y brecha participativa. Mientras que la participación digital hace referencia al uso de Internet por parte de los ciudadanos para producir bienes culturales que son posteriormente compartidos a escala global–, la brecha participativa se define como el conjunto de desigualdades que genera una distribución irregular de estos usos creativos de Internet. Se examina la brecha participativa desde un enfoque cuantitativo, prestando especial atención al análisis de la brecha participativa política. Concluimos que las desigualdades clásicas que caracterizaban a la brecha digital se trasladan a este nuevo entorno tecnológico. Sin embargo las consecuencias socialmente negativas de la brecha participativa exceden a las de su antecesora.
This article focuses on the relationship between digital participation and the digital participation divide. The first concept refers to the use of the Internet to produce cultural goods that are subsequently shared on a global scale; the latter, refers to the inequalities generated by the uneven distribution of these creative uses of the Internet in a given population. Empirically, our work focuses on the role of digital skills and sociopolitical attitudes toward the Internet in explaining the digital participation divide, as they are considered precursors of digital participation. Results suggest that the same mechanisms that previously sustained digital divide are now fostering digital participation divide; however, we argue that the negative social consequences of this divide exceed those of its predecessor
This article focuses on the relationship between digital participation and the digital participation divide. The first concept refers to the use of the Internet to produce cultural goods that are subsequently shared on a global scale; the latter, refers to the inequalities generated by the uneven distribution of these creative uses of the Internet in a given population. Empirically, our work focuses on the role of digital skills and sociopolitical attitudes toward the Internet in explaining the digital participation divide, as they are considered precursors of digital participation. Results suggest that the same mechanisms that previously sustained digital divide are now fostering digital participation divide; however, we argue that the negative social consequences of this divide exceed those of its predecessor