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18 Graham Murdock and Peter Golding, 'Information Poverty and Poli-
tical Inequality: Citizenship in the Age of Privatized Communications,'
Journal of Communication, 39 (3) (Summer 1989) 191.
19 As Murdock and Golding found in their study of public information
and communication activity in England, 'economic barriers to develop-
ing computer competence were often reinforced by social dynamics.
Because there were fewer users in their neighbourhoods and they gen-
erally worked in jobs that did not involve using computers, the less-well-
off computer owners had only limited access to the kinds of advice and
support networks enjoyed by more affiuent users and therefore experi-
enced more difficulty in sustaining commitment and developing skills.' -
ibid., p. 192.
20 Ian Parker, 'Economic Dimensions of Twenty-first-century Canadian
Cultural Strategy,' in Ian Parker, John Hutcheson and Patrick Crawley
(eds), The Strategy of Canadian Culture in the twenty-first Century
(Toronto: TopCat Communications, 1988) p. 224.
21 Robin Mansell, 'Network Governance: Designing New Regimes' in
Robin Mansell and Roger Silverstone (eds), Communication by Design,
The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies (New
York: Oxford, 1996) p. 199.
