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Prelims -- Introduction to volume 18: The M in CITAMS@30: media sociology -- Part 1 Inequalities and media -- Closing the digital divide: a justification for government intervention -- Public knowledge and digital divide: the role and impact of China's media -- Changing politics of tribalism and morality in I Am Legend and its remakes -- A niagara of intemperance and vice: newspaper reports on immigrant New York, 18001900 -- Part 2 Cultural production and consumption -- Everyone's a critic? openness as a means to closure in cultural journalism -- The attractions of "recoil" tv: the story-world of Game of Thrones -- From the raja to the desi romance: a sociological discourse on family, class, and gender in Bollywood -- Liberalism without a press: eighteenth-century Minas Geraes and the roots of Brazilian development -- Affective (im)mediations and the communication process -- Afterword: Reflections on my path to CITASA/CITAMS and the future of our section -- Index.

While the field of digital inequality continues to expand in many directions, the relationship between digital inequalities and other forms of inequality has yet to be fully appreciated. This article invites social scientists in and outside the field of digital media studies to attend to digital inequality, both as a substantive problem and as a methodological concern. The authors present current research on multiple aspects of digital inequality, defined expansively in terms of access, usage, skills, and self-perceptions, as well as future lines of research. Each of the contributions makes the case that digital inequality deserves a place alongside more traditional forms of inequality in the twenty-first century pantheon of inequalities. Digital inequality should not be only the preserve of specialists but should make its way into the work of social scientists concerned with a broad range of outcomes connected to life chances and life trajectories. As we argue, the significance of digital inequalities is clear across a broad range of individual-level and macro-level domains, including life course, gender, race, and class, as well as health care, politics, economic activity, and social capital.