Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the Handbook of digital inequality

Part I. Infrastructures and geographies

What’s missing? How technology maintenance is overlooked in representative surveys of digital inequalities / Amy L. Gonzales, Harry Yan, Glenna L. Read and Allison Brown

Geographic inequality and the Internet / Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

Infrastructure and instance : how rural communities approach short- and long-term solutions to access / Alexis Schrubbe and Sharon Strover

Digital inequality and mobiles : opportunities and challenges of relying on smartphones for digital inclusion in disadvantaged contexts / Teresa Correa, Isabel Pavez and Javier Contreras

Network and neighborhood effects in digital skills / Ellen Helsper

Part II. Digital inequality throughout the life course

Mobile media in teen life : information, networks and access / junoh kimm and Jeffrey Boase

Looking back at millennials’ mobile transitions : differentiated patterns of mobile phone use among a diverse group of young adults / Su Jung Kim and Eszter Hargittai

Smartphone pervasiveness in youth daily life as a new form of digital inequality / Marco Gui and Tiziano Gerosa

Avoiding Facebook : low-income youths’ (negative) discourses about Facebook / Marina Micheli

Inequality in access to information about college : how low-income first-year college students use social media for seeking and sharing information about college / Michael G. Brown and Nicole B. Ellison

Digital skills inequality in the context of an aging society : the case of Poland / Tomasz Drabowicz

Digital inequality among older adults : how East Yorkers in Toronto navigate digital media / Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman and Renwen Zhang

Online social connectedness and well-being among older adults in the USA / Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. Cotten

Part III. Health and disability

Digital inequalities in health communication / Heinz Bonfadelli

Inequalities in digital health behaviors in American disadvantaged communities / Xiaoqian Li and Wenhong Chen

Disability, internet, and digital inequality : the research agenda / Gerard Goggin

The closing skills gap : revisiting the digital disability divide / Kerry Dobransky and Eszter Hargittai

Part IV. Privacy and trust

Why privacy matters to digital inequality / Yong Jin Park

Digital inequalities in online privacy protection : effects of age, education and gender / Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, Natascha Just and Michael Latzer

How feelings of trust, concern, and control of personal online data influence web use / Elissa M. Redmiles and Cody L. J. Buntain

Inequalities in online political participation : the role of privacy concerns / Christoph Lutz and Christian Pieter Hoffmann

Algorithmic literacy and platform trust / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Grant Blank

Drills and spills : developing skills to protect one’s privacy online / Ashley Marie Walker and Eszter Hargittai