<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We live in a networked world with a fast pace of digitalization, and yet about half of the humanity is still offline (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_auscom-2019-0007_ref_020_w2aab3b8c14b1b7b1ab1ac20Aa">United Nations, 2018</xref>). Information and communication technologies are playing a key role in our public and private lives, both during work- and playtime. No wonder that social inequalities are increasingly reflected as digital inequalities in terms of infrastructural access, skills, and cultural practices online: those left behind can hardly keep up. The present research note brings together theoretical and practical resources related to <italic>digital inclusion issues globally, with local examples</italic> from Romania, where <italic>digital naïves</italic> – the poor, the rural, the elderly, the disabled, and the less educated – are more at risk.<sup>1</sup></p></abstract>

We live in a networked world with a fast pace of digitalization, and yet about half of the humanity is still offline (United Nations, 2018). Information and communication technologies are playing a key role in our public and private lives, both during work- and playtime. No wonder that social inequalities are increasingly reflected as digital inequalities in terms of infrastructural access, skills, and cultural practices online: those left behind can hardly keep up. The present research note brings together theoretical and practical resources related to digital inclusion issues globally, with local examples from Romania, where digital naïves – the poor, the rural, the elderly, the disabled, and the less educated – are more at risk.1

Digital Naïves Go Online

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio

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We live in a networked world with a fast pace of digitalization, and yet about half of the humanity is still offline (United Nations, 2018). Information and...

Digital Naïves Go Online

Publié en ligne: 07 févr. 2020

Pages: 121 - 129

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auscom-2019-0007

Mots clés
digital naïves, digital inclusion, global perspective, local example, Romania

© 2019 Rozália Klára Bakó, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Digital Naïves Go Online

Publié en ligne: 07 févr. 2020

Pages: 121 - 129

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auscom-2019-0007

Mots clésdigital naïves, digital inclusion, global perspective, local example, Romania

© 2019 Rozália Klára Bakó, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
digital naïves, digital inclusion, global perspective, local example, Romania