Community Literacy Journal Apr 2015 Open Access

Digital Literacy in Rural Women’s Lives

Jennie Vaughn Gannon University ; Allen Harrell Alabama Southern Community College ; Amy Dayton

Abstract

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.

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Community Literacy Journal
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2015-04-01
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10.25148/clj.9.2.009286
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