Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 "The language metaphor": An epistemological approach to the digital divide -- Introduction -- Language, ICT and different forms of capital -- Digitality divides -- Digitality as a hegemonic language -- Digital registers -- Digitality acquisition and learning -- The "Creolisation" hypothesis -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7 Theorizing digital divides through the lens of the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology -- Introduction -- The theory of the social construction of technology (SCOT) -- The theory of the social shaping of technology (SST) -- The perpetual conundrums in the US -- The race and ethnicity divide -- The urban-rural divide -- The disability divide -- Explicating the conundrum through the social construction of technology and social shaping of technology theories -- Implications of the SCOT and SST theories for understanding digital divides and directions for future research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Critical infrastructures, critical geographies: Towards a spatial theory of the digital divide -- Introduction -- Geography, the Internet and the digital divide -- A Marxist-postcolonial analysis of the uneven geographic development of Internet infrastructures -- Fixed and digital Internet infrastructures -- Fixed infrastructure -- Digital infrastructure -- Summarizing a spatial theory of the digital divide -- References -- Chapter 9 A "recognitional perspective" on the twenty-first century's digital divide -- Introduction -- A framework for the twenty-first century digital divide -- Recognition in social sciences -- Axel Honneth's theory of recognition -- Interpreting the digital divide from a perspective of recognition -- Limitations and conclusion -- Note -- References -- Section 3 Critical and alternative perspectives