Digital Inequalities 2.0: Legacy Inequalities in the Information Age
DOI[PLACEHOLDER: Annotation on how legacy social inequalities persist and transform in digital contexts. Mass collaboration with 26 authors.]
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Twenty-five years after "the digital divide" was first identified, foundational access inequalities persist across class, gender, race, disability, and geography. Introduces the "digital inequality stack". This includes connectivity infrastructure through devices, skills, and production capacity, thereby showing how platform architectures layer new forms of exclusion atop legacy disparities.