The Impact of Digital Redlining in a Post-Pandemic World
As public spaces, employers, and schools shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, an issue that librarians and educators were familiar with became evident: the digital divide was alive and well in communities around the world. While historically, the digital divide has been defined since the middle of the 1990s as “the gap between those who do and those who do not have access to new forms of information technology” , two decades later, this definition encompasses information technology such as broadband internet, home computers, stable mobile telephone connectivity and digital television.
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