purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the information poverty of post graduate students of birjand university with respect to its 4 indicators (information overload, information vacuum, information inequality, and digital divide) and the role of globalization in information poverty from their point of view. methodology: this study was a descriptive survey. the population consisted o...

overcoming spatial and temporal limitation, information and communication technology is today considered as the axis and key to sustained development and as the most important criterion for development which has reshaped the world and life patterns and it is, in fact, considered both the cause and the effect of development. identifying and proper using of new opportunities for sustained develop...

Contributing to previous research that has identified differences in connection speed, user skill, and experience as mechanisms affecting digital divides among Internet users, this paper explores whether location of use should be considered a factor that limits or facilitates individual efforts to apply the Internet toward beneficial activities. At some locations, Internet users enjoy high leve...

The digital divide refers to inequalities in access to information technology. Those people who do not have access to information technology are at a significant economic and social disadvantage. As with any other policy decision, in order to evaluate policies for dealing with the digital divide, we need to know exactly what our goal should be. Since the principal value of access to information...

This paper is an attempt to review various aspects of the open access divide regarding the difference between those academics who support free sharing of data and scholarly output and those academics who do not. It provides a structured description by adopting the Ws doctrines emphasizing such questions as who, what, when, where and why for information-gathering. Using measurable variables to d...

Potential differences in Internet access and usage among high school students underscores the fact that while Internet access and computer ownership are rising rapidly for many groups, at present a digital divide remains. The authors designed a study to examine the Internet usage and access patterns of college-bound high school students in southeast Georgia. An analysis of the data collected fr...