Shampoo girls and the digital divide: A Study on the relationship between mobile phone ban system and the knowledge growth of marginalized groups

Abstract

Under the background that digital media has become the "infrastructure"of the current society, some marginalized people have poor digital access, resulting in a "digital divide" between them and the community. The author notices the rejection of the mobile phone, a tool that links the digital society, to the particular type of shampoo girl at work. Firstly, it introduces how the unique mobile phone ban system affects the generation of the digital divide and then examines how the digital divide deepens and solidifies. Finally, the reflection on the digital divide faced by the particular group of shampoo girls is put forward. The innovation of this paper is to notice the multiple impacts of the digital divide faced by special marginalized groups on their work and life.