Review: Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide

lives on!). But there is no doubt that the latter formulation has been influential and that its further refinementwill be welcomedby many, not least by students learning to critically analyse what it is that they are seeing. The book has little to say about the contemporary institutional context of documentary production: broadcast television's increasing dominance of production funding for instance; a growing focus on 'brands' of documentary rather than individual works; the impact of what Jan Rofekamp has described as the emerging 'second market' in the pay and cable TV sector. However, this is unsurprising given the book's international and introductory parameters. Overall, I expect this to become an important book for teachers, students and practitioners of documentary. I came away from a first reading with some documentaries and their filmmakers to track down, chapters to use in teaching both introductory and Honours classes, and some references to recommend to a postgraduate student. Although clearly marketed as an introductory textbook, this is a work that will also repay the attention of a wider readership. Trish FitzSimons, Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Griffith University Norris, Pippa, Digital Divide: Civic Engagemellt, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, ISBN 0 5210 0223 0, 303 pp., $49.95.