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Digital Literacy In Rural Women’S Lives, Jennie Vaughn, Allen Harrell, Amy E. Dayton
Digital Literacy In Rural Women’S Lives, Jennie Vaughn, Allen Harrell, Amy E. Dayton
Community Literacy Journal
This qualitative study looks at how rural women in the American South have obtained access to digital technologies for reading and writing. Using the “life history” approach (Brandt; Hawisher and Selfe), we interviewed five women. We look at the challenges caused by the Digital Divide, at economies of access, including the financial factors that shape individuals’ uses of digital technologies for reading and writing, at the strategies that the women used for gaining access to needed technologies, and at the nature of sponsorship in digital, rural contexts.