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Author_Joy Pierce
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- ISBN 9781433127588
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first national recognition of disparities in access to information technologies – a digital divide – surfaced in a 1995 report by The National Telecommunication and Information Administration. Despite efforts to close the gap and promote digital inclusion, statistical data over the course of nearly 20 years indicate a significant disparity remains in poor and minority communities. In this accessible yet scholarly work, Joy Pierce illustrates the need to examine the societal status of information technologies at the micro level. Digital Fusion is a sustained and integrated project that combines more than a decade of community participatory research in two regions of the United States. Using qualitative research methods and drawing from critical cultural studies and social theory, Digital Fusion is an interdisciplinary project that engages digital literacy and social justice issues related to race, ethnicity, language, class, and education. Thought-provoking, multi-vocal, and multi-lingual narratives from racial and ethnic minorities as well as institutional administrators lay the groundwork for potential policy implications and digital infrastructure and design. Digital Fusion illuminates the complexities of digital access and use at the micro-level and offers a participatory project that seeks to co-create a digital space; one that speaks to the specific cultural, linguistic, and social needs of underrepresented communities.
Joy Pierce (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry and Social Identities.
