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REACH, ACCESS AND UTILIZATION OF NEW MEDIA AMONG THE DALIT COMMUNITY IN SHIVAMOGGA

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Mahadevaswamy K.N. and Dr. Varghese P.A.
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.s1-B.152

Abstract

New media as a term means to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized or networked information and communication technologies. Most technologies described as the new media are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulative, networkable, dense, compressible and impartial new media play a significant role in reaching and accessing to the people. It establishes a dominant position with wide access. Computers, internet, mobile phone and DTH’s have started influencing the way the people would like to communicate. Some of the vivid gaps in digital inequality include; gender divide, social digital divide, access digital divide, the urban and rural divide disparity due to literacy and digital literacy, linguistic digital divide regional digital divide and intra-state digital inequality, and gender digital inequalities are commonly appeared in Indian scene in India

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