Chapter 6 Practice Quiz

Technology and Inequality
. The term ________ is used to describe the gap in access to and use of the Internet that exists between countries in the Global North and Global South.

. Individuals living in the Global South often gain access to the Internet through ________.

. ________ is seen as a prime example of a newly industrializing nation that has struggled to join the information society and in the process has developed an ambivalent relationship with the Internet.

. When examining early Statistics Canada data from 1994, we learn that the penetration rate for computers in the highest income quartile (those who earn above $63,034 a year) was ________.

. The Canadian Big Data Consortium has suggested that the skills gap could ________ employees in the data science field.

. In Canada in the 1990s, income was found to be strongly associated with the penetration rate for ________.

. Unequal access to the Internet has been found to ________.

. The Ktunaxa Nation Network seeks to:

. People experiencing homelessness in Canada use cellphone primarily to:

. In their 2014 study of the 2010 CIUS, Haight, Quan-Haase, and Corbett found that discrepancies in access to the internet were influenced by ________.

. In Canada and the United States, ________ have played a central role in terms of providing computer skills to users.

. The ________ reflects the advantages provided by access to digital technologies, such as finding a job, obtaining health information, and being able to take an online course.

. ________ are the resources, both actual and potential, available through a person's social networks.

. New policy is being developed in Canada to address the digital divide. For example, Canada's Auditor General has stated that the following needs to be achieved

. There are many barriers to Internet use and adoption on the Global South, which of the following is a key micro-level barrier?

. China is a unique case in terms of the diffusion of the Internet for all the following reasons except that ________.

. Gurstein (2007) provided a thoughtful critique of the digital divide concept, saying that ________.

. The central problem of the digital divide today is limited access.

. The Canadian Big Data Consortium stated that there is no skills gap in Canada in relation to employees in the data sciences field.

. The term "digital divide" gained prominence when it was used in a speech by Bill Clinton and Al Gore in 1996.

. Research conducted on the digital divide in the 1990s showed that in Canada income was not associated with the use of computers and internet penetration.

. Despite the knowledge of large discrepancies in access to the Internet, there have been no new policies developed to increase digital inclusion in the United States or Canada.

. In Canada and the United States, libraries have played a central role in terms of providing computer skills to users.

. Research conducted by the First Mile project showed that First Nations are underserved by broadband inside and outside of large urban centres.

. In a study on the digital divide in China, the CNNIC found that lack of computer and internet knowledge was the primary reason for not using the Internet.

. Hargittai developed a tool to measure levels of digital literacy through analysing the familiarity with a list of 27 terms.

. The conception of the digital divide put forth by Mossberger, Tolbert, and Stansbury includes four elements: (1) the access divide, (2) the skills divide, (3) the economic opportunity divide, and (4) the democratic divide.

. Cultural capital allows individuals to show credibility and belonging to social groups.

. Haight et al. found that in Canada, individuals without a high school diploma were more likely to use social networking sites like Facebook.

. Electricity supply is not an issue for countries in countries of the Global South such as Africa.

. China has been criticized for its Internet censorship with restricts users' access to certain websites.

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