When researching what books I want to do my research on, I found it more difficult to find interesting books that have been published within the last two years. However, I wanted to make sure that I picked a book that involved the digital divide and the social inequalities distributed globally. After some time, I found three that interested me.

1) “Technology, Society and Inequality: New Horizons and Contested Futures (Digital Formations)” by Erika Cudworth, Peter Senker, and Kathy Walker

2) “Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)” by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and William W. Franko

3) “Digital Solidarity in Education: Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Academic Excellence through Innovative Instructional Programs” by Mary T. Kolesinski

“Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)” has the most pages with 368 and comes out with the best editorial reviews as it’s listed as a “must read”. “Digital Solidarity in Education: Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Academic Excellence through Innovative Instructional Programs” costs the most at $37.95.

“Technology, Society and Inequality: New Horizons and Contested Futures (Digital Formations)” is found in 82 libraries in WorldCat and has the subject classifications of information technology with economic and social aspects and capitalism with moral and ethical aspects.

“Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)” is held by 166 libraries in WorldCat and the most out of these three choices. The subject classifications are internet and government policy, computer networks with social aspects and the digital divide.

“Digital Solidarity in Education: Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Academic Excellence through Innovative Instructional Programs” is found in 80 libraries in WorldCat and has the classifications of educational innovation, multicultural education, and educational equalization.

The subject classifications are all very similar yet have different tweaks to them based on different aspects applied to each subject. They do offer more interesting terms that could be used for further search including capitalism.

The book that seems to have generated the most chatter on the web is “Technology, Society and Inequality: New Horizons and Contested Futures (Digital Formations)” since it had the most search results on Google Books; however, not one of the three books had a review on Google books. “Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)” and “Digital Solidarity in Education: Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Academic Excellence through Innovative Instructional Programs” were the two that had ebooks available and with extended previews available to look at it online.

Unfortunately not one of the three books that I chose were found on LibraryThing.

At this point in time I am going to choose the book “Technology, Society and Inequality: New Horizons and Contested Futures (Digital Formations)” because the description on Amazon captured my interest the most.

There were no academic reviews on this book on Project Muse or ProQuest. However, I found an academic review on the site Peter Lang—International Academic Publishers. The review was done by Professor David Gann of Imperial College London. David Gann hasn’t written any books himself, but has written many successful online journal articles involving technological innovations including “Organizational Learning and the Technology of Foolishness: The Case of Virtual Worlds”.

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