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Vol. 2 / No. 2 / Published : 2001-01
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Original Article :
Kesenjangan digital (digital divide) pada kalangan penyandang tunanetra di pertuni surabaya
Author :
- Nurul Janah *1
- Ilmu Informasi dan Perpustakaan
Abstract :
Digital divide is a phenomenon that occurs along with the development of information technology and communications media. Digital divide that also occurs in the physically blind in Surabaya Pertuni is certainly a result of the ease of blind people to be able to use mobile media, computer or laptop that has to be installed by the screen reader software to facilitate blind people in its use. However, from the ease of blind people in the use of information and communication technology media are not offset by the facility of communication media and information technologies that can be used by blind people in Pertuni Surabaya. Based on that later researchers wanted to know how the condition of the digital divide that occurs in the visually impaired that still has not been widely studied, and how these factors are affecting the digital divide. According to the Dewan (2001) means that the digital divide refers to the separation between those who have access to digital information and communication technologies with those who did not. Yu (2001) mentions the factors of the digital divide can be divided into two, namely the problem of the global digital divide and social digital divide. By using descriptive quantitative research methods with simple random sampling technique sampling is known that the digital divide occurs in the physically blind in Surabaya Pertuni caused by factors of education, lack of telecommunications infrastructure and the information available, as well as psychological factors. These three factors are interrelated basically where pangadaan educational factors associated with training in the use of information and communication technology media and self-development undertaken independently by blind people but not matched with telecommunication infrastructure and adequate information will affect the psychological factors themselves blind people
Keyword :
digital divide, information and communication technology, information needs, people with visual impairment, Departemen Informasi dan Perpustakaan Universitas,
References :
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