Challenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations placed on young people’s literacy education by their limited access to technology and digital resources.

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Moving stories of inequity to stories of justiceJennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, UK & Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame, USASection 1: Macro perspectives: Big gaps, divides, and inequities Chapter 2 - Searching for mermaids: Access, capital and the digital divide in a rural South African Primary SchoolKerryn Dixon, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Chapter 3 - Divided digital practices: A story from Indigenous AustraliaInge Kral, The Australian National University, Australia Chapter 4 - Storylines: Young people playing into change in agricultural colleges in Rural Ethiopia to address sexual and gender based violenceHani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell & Lisa Starr, McGill University, Canada Section 2: Meso perspectives: Making it work on the margins Chapter 5 - Reframing the digital in literacy: Youth, arts, and misperceptionsMia Perry, University of Glasgow, UK, Diane R. Collier, Brock University, Canada & Jennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, UKChapter 6 - The potential of participatory literacies to challenge digital (civic) divides Nicole Mirra, Rutgers University, USA & Antero Garcia, Stanford University, USA Chapter 7 - Youth people’s media use and social participation in Hong Kong: A perspective of digital use divideAlice Y. L. Lee, Hong Kong Baptist University, China & Klavier J. Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Chapter 8 - From mothballed to meaningfully-used technology in Urban Catholic SchoolsNate Wills, University of Notre Dame, USA Section 3: Micro perspectives: Race and social class digital divides in communitiesChapter 9 - Social class, literacies, and digital wastelands: Technological artifacts in a network of relationsStephanie Jones & Jaye Johnson Thiel, University of Georgia, USA Chapter 10 - Values, neoliberalism, and the digital divide: Nonwhite media makers and the production of meaningZithri Saleem & Negin Dahya, University of Washington, USA Chapter 11 - Making it work in the Global South: Stories of digital divides in a Brazilian contextCristiane Manzan Perine, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil & Jennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, UKAfterword