New Danish research (by Børsen and Geomatic) shows that the internet divides the Danish population in two categories
- heavy internet users generally are highly educated, have a high income and live in urban areas in the vicinity of higher education institutions.
- On the other side of this digital divide are people in rural areas.
Usually, I think of the internet as flattening hierachies and class divisions. However, as Johan Peter Paludan says it is an illusion that geography becomes irrelevant in the knowledge society. This means that the internet reinforces the old polarisation between town and country.
Almost 2 years later, it seems that reports say that there is not so much difference of internet use between regions. This could mean there is not so much difference as before between rural and urban areas.
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