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Old 08-12-2010, 11:49 AM
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* DIGITAL DIVIDES
- Are there gaps in who has access to digital techonology & who doesn’t? And do those gaps correlate with other social variables? And is this inherently part of digital media?
- PEW Research Foundation - tracking trends of different technology access (specifically broadband access)

* Overall increase in all US adults who have broadband at home

* Gender does not account (right now) for a big digital divide
- Male Centric early internet
- Richer people have more technology than poorer
- We don’t know if this is changing/a trend

* There is a gap between caucasians & African Americans
- Not as big of a gap as income
- Hard to say where the trend is going (unclear)

* AGE: BIG gap between those 18-29 & 65 +
- Both have increased, but not equally

* LOCATION: Rural not increasing as much as suburban/urban

* EDUCATION: < HS or > or = BA degree
- Both increasing access
- Higher educated group is increasing faster
* BIGGER GAP
- Optimistic view: Eventually divides will be solved
Argument against it: There is a ceiling (full saturation of a technology)
- Once they hit 100% you can’t go higher, other groups have time to catch up
- All groups seem to be increasing access, but some increasing slower







*** Basically digital divide is b/w who has access to a technology & who doesn't
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