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The digital production gap: The digital divide and Web 2.0 collide
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Abstract How does class intersect with claims of digital democracy? Most digital inequality research focuses on digital consumption or participation, but this study uses a production lens to examine who is creating digital content for the public sphere. My results point to a class-based gap among producers of online content. A critical mechanism of this inequality is control of digital tools and an elite Internet-in-practice and information habitus to use the Internet. Using survey data of American adults, I apply a logit analysis of 10 production activities—from Web sites and blogs to discussion forums and social media sites. Even among people who are already online, a digital production gap challenges theories that the Internet creates an egalitarian public sphere. Instead, digital production inequality suggests that elite voices still dominate in the new digital commons.
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- Schradie, J.
- Venue
- Poetics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-04
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 145-168
- ISSN
- 0304-422X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2092664805
- Cited by
- 365
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 63.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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