Digital inequalities: Internet access and use, social-economic position, and spatial segmentation in the Brazilian metropolitan areas

Authors

  • Luiz César de Queiroz Ribeiro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e Observatório das Metrópoles (INCT)
  • André Salata Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7236-4917
  • Lygia Costa Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas, Fundação Getúlio Vargas e Observatório das Metrópoles
  • Marcelo Gomes Ribeiro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e Observatório das Metrópoles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2013207.02

Keywords:

internet, inequalities, opportunities, Brazil

Abstract

Much has been written and discussed about the democratizing nature of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), which might promote a broader social, political, and economic participation. Our goal in this paper is to evaluate if the spread, in the Brazilian metropolitan areas, of access to the opportunities opened by the Internet is conditioned by the country’s historical and social inequalities – in terms of income and education – and also by the spatial segmentation. By means of logit and multinomial logit models we analyze data from the years 2001, 2008, and 2009 to provide answers to these questions.

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Published

2013-06-28

How to Cite

de Queiroz Ribeiro, L. C., Salata, A., Costa, L., & Gomes Ribeiro, M. (2013). Digital inequalities: Internet access and use, social-economic position, and spatial segmentation in the Brazilian metropolitan areas. Análise Social , 48(207), 288–320. https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2013207.02

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 207 (2013)

Section

Dossier-Internet and digital networks