Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access
The paper is a micro-level quantitative study of perceptions of social science students in India whether Free Wi-Fi has helped them learn better. It is commonly believed that digital resources are neutral about social inequalities. However, the survey finds that socio-cultural capital in the form of...
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| author | Shraddha Kumbhojkar Rahul Magar Shantanu Ozarkar |
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| description | The paper is a micro-level quantitative study of perceptions of social science students in India whether Free Wi-Fi has helped them learn better. It is commonly believed that digital resources are neutral about social inequalities. However, the survey finds that socio-cultural capital in the form of Caste, Gender, Language and Location has a negative impact on digital access even if it is free. The paper also instills hope as it finds that almost every student on the campus of a State University in Western Maharashtra has access to the Internet and majority of these students perceive that the digital access has improved their academic performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b33e8410b1d8467c901368e36fb1b24e2022-12-21T19:40:34ZengFundación MenteClaraRevista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara2469-07832019-04-0141657810.32351/rca.v4.1.7048Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital AccessShraddha Kumbhojkar0Rahul Magar1Shantanu Ozarkar2Savitribai Phule Pune University, History, Faculty MemberSavitribai Phule Pune UniversitySavitribai Phule Pune University, Assistant Professor, Dept of Anthropology.The paper is a micro-level quantitative study of perceptions of social science students in India whether Free Wi-Fi has helped them learn better. It is commonly believed that digital resources are neutral about social inequalities. However, the survey finds that socio-cultural capital in the form of Caste, Gender, Language and Location has a negative impact on digital access even if it is free. The paper also instills hope as it finds that almost every student on the campus of a State University in Western Maharashtra has access to the Internet and majority of these students perceive that the digital access has improved their academic performance.https://fundacionmenteclara.org.ar/revista/index.php/RCA/article/view/70Internetuniversity wi-ficastesexclusionsegregation |
| spellingShingle | Shraddha Kumbhojkar Rahul Magar Shantanu Ozarkar Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara Internet university wi-fi castes exclusion segregation |
| title | Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access |
| title_full | Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access |
| title_fullStr | Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access |
| title_full_unstemmed | Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access |
| title_short | Access Denied? : Cultural Capital and Digital Access |
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| topic | Internet university wi-fi castes exclusion segregation |
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