Toward digital inclusion: digital divides and new media skills

Early literature on the digital divide mainly focused on technological considerations, emphasizing a binary dimension (haves vs have nots). In order to achieve a clear operational definition of digital divide, we should avoid some misleading myths characterizing the debate and focus on the complex relationships between technological, social and human factors (a dichotomous conceptualization, a narrow understanding of the technological factors involved, a technological deterministic approach), adopting, instead, an enabling technology approach