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Digital Inclusion: From Connectivity to the Development of Information Culture

Digital Inclusion: From Connectivity to the Development of Information Culture
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Author(s): Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Brasilina Passarelli (School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil), Joseph Straubhaar (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)and Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter discusses digital inclusion from a social, educational and cultural dimension. The author considers concepts that have been of great importance in the historical development, such as culture, citizenship and education in the interest of raising an overview of the digital inclusion reflective and critical. Different perspectives of digital inclusion are described, from the perspective more socially oriented to eliminate the gap of digital access to the current perspective, the integration of the citizenship in a mediated society by the emergent information technologies with needs oriented towards the training in access, use, evaluation and communication of information. The chapter concludes by stressing the importance of information literacy to prevent social inequalities but proposes that training of citizenship is made from a humanistic perspective that transcends the merely instrumental and approaching what we call a culture of information, understood as a necessary prerequisite for integration of citizens in society.

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