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digital divide  

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  • Digital divide is a metaphor for the cleft between people with access to technology and those without. Although the term originated in the mid-1990s to describe differences in technological infrastructure of U.S. schools, it has grown to describe various forms of alienation predicated on class, race, and national identity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Digital Divide]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-BJPH4527-H

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