Digital Poverty as a New Form of Inequality

Abstract

The most important feature of the global world is easily delivered products, services and information to all societies in an international context by crossing national borders. However, just like the unequal distribution of products, it can be mentioned that information and information technologies are also unequally distributed. In this case, digital poverty, which is the result of digital divide, emerges as a new form of inequality. The aim of this article is to consider digital poverty as a new form of inequality and to discuss what digital poverty means by looking at the internet access situation in the world and in Turkey. As a method, this study is a review study. Therefore, national and international published research in the field of digital poverty is focused on. In the article, the issues of inequality, poverty, digitalization and digital poverty are discussed. In the discussion, social, economic, cultural and political factors in the emergence of digital poverty are mentioned. As a result, the importance of digital poverty in the spread and deepening of other types of poverty has been emphasized and it has been stated that this problem may be one of the most important problems of the future. Addressing digital poverty in a comprehensive way, contributing to the development of awareness in this area, emphasizing the importance of the need for digital and information technologies, and recommendations to reduce this inequality can show the originality of the research.

Keywords

• Inequality
• Poverty
• Digitization
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Digital Poverty

Yeni Bir Eşitsizlik Biçimi Olarak Dijital Yoksulluk

Abstract

Küresel dünyanın en önemli özelliği ürünler, hizmetler ve bilginin ulusal sınırları aşarak uluslararası bağlamda tüm toplumlara kolayca ulaşmasıdır. Ancak ürünlerin eşitsiz biçimde dağılımı gibi bilgi ve enformasyon teknolojilerinin de eşitsiz dağılımından söz edilebilir. Bu durumda dijital bölünmenin sonucu olan dijital yoksulluk, yeni bir eşitsizlik biçimi olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu makalenin amacı dijital yoksulluğu yeni bir eşitsizlik biçimi olarak ele almak ve Dünya’da ve Türkiye’deki internete erişim durumlarına bakarak dijital yoksulluğun ne anlama geldiğini tartışmaktır. Yöntem olarak bu çalışma bir derleme çalışması niteliğindedir. Dolayısıyla dijital yoksulluk alanında yayınlanmış ulusal ve uluslararası araştırmalar üzerine durulmuştur. Makalede eşitsizlik, yoksulluk, dijitalleşme ve dijital yoksulluk konuları irdelenmiştir. Çalışmanın tartışma bölümünde dijital yoksulluğun ortaya çıkışında toplumsal, ekonomik, kültürel ve politik faktörlerden söz edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak dijital yoksulluğun diğer yoksulluk türlerinin yaygınlaşması ve derinleşmesindeki önemine vurgu yapılmış bu sorunun, geleceğin en önemli sorunlarından birisi olabileceği ifade edilmiştir. Dijital yoksulluğu kapsamlı bir biçimde ele almak, bu alanda farkındalığın gelişmesine katkı sağlamak, dijital ve enformasyon teknolojilere olan ihtiyacın önemine değinmek ve bu eşitsizliği azaltmaya yönelik öneriler sunmak araştırmanın özgün değerini gösterebilmektedir.

Keywords

• Eşitsizlik
• Yoksulluk
• Dijitalleşme
• Bilgi ve İletişim Teknolojileri
• Dijital Yoksulluk

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