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Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society book cover

1st Edition

Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society

Edited By Grete Rusten, Sarah Skerratt Copyright 2008
200 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing together the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international perspective on the on how and the extent to which the experiential nature of being rural, whether as an business manager in an SME (or micro-enterprise), a non-business person, a retired inhabitant or a housewife is changing as Information and Communication Technologies become applied... Read more

1. Introduction Skerratt and Rusten  2. Theoretical Issues Relating to Rural ICT Ekland and Granberg  3. The Digital Economy and Rural SMEs McLeod  4. Lost in Cyberspace? Website Performance Among Firms in Rural Areas in Norway Rusten  5. Service Industries and ICT in Rural Areas Bryson  6. Digital Divides: Definitions and Dimensions Skerratt  7. Digital Divides Within Households Gilligan  8. ICTs and Heritage Branding Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe, Brynjólfur Eyjólfsson and James Hosea  9: The Policy Implications for Realization of Europe Gillespie  10. Conclusions Rusten and Skerratt

Biography

Grete Rusten is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway

Sarah Skerratt is Senior Researcher and Team Leader in Rural Development and Society Research at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh

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