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The Information Have-Less: Inequality, Mobility, and Translocal Networks in Chinese Cities
2005
Studies in comparative international development
The "information have-less" is a social, economic, and political category for millions of rural-to-urban migrants and laid-off workers who populate the vast gray zone of China's digital divide. Disengaged from institutions of agricultural and industrial production, the information have-less make use of such inexpensive ICT services as Internet cafés, prepaid phone cards, and Little Smart mobile phones. These low-end digital technologies are critical to enhancing labor mobility (both physical
doi:10.1007/bf02686292
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