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The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking

by Mark Bauerlein · 7 Sep 2011 · 407pp · 103,501 words

needs. For details, write Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Special Markets, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The digital divide: arguments for and against Facebook, Google, texting, and the age of social networking/edited and introduced by Mark Bauerlein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and

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index. ISBN : 978-1-101-54752-6 1. Digital divide. 2. Technological innovations—Social aspects. 3. Social networks. I. Bauerlein, Mark. HM851.D524 2011 2011019688 303.48’33—dc23 While the author has made every

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

by Virginia Eubanks · 1 Feb 2011 · 289pp · 99,936 words

exist. Contents Author’s Note ix Acknowledgments Introduction xv xi 1 Four Beginnings 1 2 The Real World of Information Technology 3 Trapped in the Digital Divide 4 Drowning in the Sink-or-Swim Economy 5 Technologies of Citizenship 6 Popular Technology 7 Cognitive Justice and Critical Technological Citizenship 23 35 49

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, describe their everyday interactions with it, and express their hopes for a more just future. Their stories challenged my preconceptions, overturned the central tenets of digital divide policy, and shattered the familiar illusion that low-income people are somehow information or technology poor. Their insights forced me to reach beyond the most

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account nor adequately provides for social justice in the information age. These oversights and omissions are particularly evident in policies directed toward bridging a presumptive digital divide, which, I argue, are trapped in a distributive paradigm that sees all high-tech equity issues as distributive issues. As a corrective to the oversights

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-Cohoes. Inﬂuenced by my work in community technology centers and the policy rhetoric popular at the time, I initiated a project designed to close the digital divide by providing situated technology training, asset-based community development, and workforce preparation for low-income women. But women in the YWCA community repeatedly disputed and

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disrupted the digital divide frame. As my relationships with them developed, they described their struggles to meet their basic needs in the hightech economy and their signiﬁcant, often troubling

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YW community for nearly two years. One interview, with Ruth Delgado Guzman, exempliﬁes the 6 Chapter 1 challenges women in the YWCA community posed to digital divide framings and begins to illustrate how their insights shifted my understanding of high-tech equity. Ruth and I met through the Women’s Economic Empowerment

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for business people, for professionals, she argued. “But where are the mothers,” she asked, “or people who work and struggle to stay aﬂoat? The homeless?” Digital divide policy, she insisted, does not address social and economic justice issues central to the lives of people who struggle to meet their basic needs. “It

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a more just information age. As a committed community technology practitioner, I used my skills to increase access and teach technical proﬁciency to close the digital divide. But women in the YWCA community routinely Four Beginnings 9 challenged my assumptions, both implicitly and explicitly, and over the course of my ﬁrst two

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they come into contact with IT in their daily lives? What were those experiences like? Their answers were surprising. Some women certainly responded in ways digital divide scholars and policymakers would have predicted: they spoke at length about the inequitable distribution of technology, declared their desire for better access, and described their

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be a renewed emphasis on the concept of justice. —Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology (1999, 5) This is not a book about the digital divide. The relationship between inequality and information technology (IT) is far more complex than any picture portraying “haves” and “have-nots” can represent. Working toward an

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participatory action research hadn’t existed, we would have had to invent it. My own understandings of high-tech equity had been so colonized by digital divide theory that I couldn’t hear past my own assumptions. Because I was working in a community often tapped for “research subjects,” and because the

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poor and working-class women mattered, and in so doing create a new vision of the possibilities for high-tech equity. 3 Trapped in the Digital Divide Technology is not a destiny but a scene of struggle. —Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology (1991, 14) To understand the analysis offered by women

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in the YWCA community, and to imagine new possibilities for high-tech equity, we must release our stubborn attachment to the digital divide. The phrase “digital divide” was coined in 1996 by Lloyd Morrisett, a founder of the Children’s Television Workshop and president of the Markle Foundation, to describe the

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promise to wire every classroom in the nation by the year 2000 and every home by 2007.3 36 Chapter 3 Programs dealing with the digital divide and technological opportunity, most of which were underfunded or dismantled during the George W. Bush administration, are beginning to be revived under President Obama.4

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Though the Obama administration has carefully avoided using the phrase “digital divide,” expanding broadband access ranks high on the economic agenda.5 In a December 2008 address, for example, the president-elect promised to renew the nation

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” corresponds to the particular demands of late capitalist economies, speciﬁcally the demand for individuals to consume more products produced by high-tech industry (66). Finally, digital divide policy relies on and reinforces the popular idea that there is a self-reproducing “culture of poverty” in the United States that is driven by

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that respond to a perceived lack of access or lack of information among supposed technological have-nots.6 Against their creators’ best intentions, however, many digital divide programs actually work to restrict the scope of the high-tech equity agenda because they rely on a deﬁcit orientation that labels neighborhoods “poor” or

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“underserved” and therefore underestimate the considerable resources, skills, and experiences of these communities. These programs can obscure how powerful Trapped in the Digital Divide 37 institutions such as the criminal justice system, the social service system, and the low-wage workplace operate to structure people’s relationship to IT

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the empirical realities of living in the information age, offering individualized and market solutions to broadly structural problems. The overreliance on the distributive paradigm in digital divide policy and programming is at the heart of our inability to recognize and address some of the most pressing social justice issues of the information

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YWCA community suggested innovative and incisive new frameworks within which to understand high-tech inequality.7 For example, when I doodled a picture of the digital divide in my ﬁrst interview, with Ruth Delgado Guzman (ﬁgure 3.1), it visibly upset and frustrated her. Ruth admitted that she did sometimes feel out

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, deﬁcient people. She explained that people on both sides of the putative divide have skills, strengths, and resources to share with each other. If the digital divide notion was not capturing her experience with IT, I asked, could we describe the problem—and its potential solutions—better? She answered, and I drew

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ambivalence that women in the YWCA community felt about technological change. The sketches that resulted from this process, taken together, illustrate three major critiques of digital divide rhetoric and policy: (1) the characterization of haves and have-nots is overly simplistic; (2) the divide is actually a product of social structure and

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have-nots” and “haves come from haves” (ﬁgure 3.6). She also stressed the role that social, economic, and political privilege play in creating the digital divide, naming social capital, status, and consumption as motivations for the haves to become “information keepers,” invested in hoarding information resources and reproducing systems of inequality

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, for example, Attali 2000; Brown 2001; Rischard 1996; and Yunus 2001. 3. The Clinton administration’s attention to universal access to IT considerably anticipated the digital divide rhetoric, however. At the G7 Information Summit in early 1995, Vice President Al Gore explained that the Clinton administration’s position on universal access was

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, the right to communicate, and diversity of expression” (Gore 1995 and Tarjanne 1995, quoted in Compaine 2001, 162–63). 4. National funding to bridge the digital divide peaked in 2001. That year the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) received $42.5 million and the Community Technology Centers Program (CTC) received $65 million. In

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Technology Opportunities Program in the economic stimulus plan (ARRA) promised $7.2 billion to increase the reach and use of broadband, reviving both the phrase “digital divide” and the government programs intended to remedy it. 5. Foundations, government agencies, and nonproﬁt groups have recently begun to use the phrase “broadband divide.” See

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in economic stimulus funding to increase access to broadband. A full panel of the hearings focused on the “broadband have-nots.” As part of this digital divide revival, legislators have deployed the language of “unserved” or “underserved” populations, “have-nots,” and “digital gaps.” See also Feinberg 2009. 6. The focus on distributional

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parables, see the Southern Rural Development Institute’s “Parables to Policy” project at <http://www.srdi.org>. 18. For example, both welfare reform and the digital divide mark a historical turn away from structural redistributive solutions to those based on the role of individual citizens as consumers (of government services such as

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Economy. The Nation, March 30. Available online at <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/ bernhardt_owens> (accessed June 5, 2009). Besser, Howard. 2001. The Next Digital Divides. Teaching to Change LA 1. Bjerknes, Gro, and Tone Bratteteig. 1995. User Participation and Democracy. A Discussion of Scandinavian Research on System Development. Scandinavian Journal

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: Routledge. Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Compaine, Benjamin M., ed. 2001. The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cooke, Bill, and Uma Kothari. 2001. Participation: The New Tyranny? London: Zed Books. Cooks

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: Strategies for Engaging Middle-School Girls in Information Technology. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26:90–98. Dickard, Norris. 2002. Federal Retrenchment on the Digital Divide: Potential National Impact. Washington, DC: Benton Foundation. References 243 Domestic Workers United. 2009. Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights. <http://www .domesticworkersunited.org/campaigns.php

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the Welfare System. In Surveillance and Security: Technology and Power in Everyday Life, ed. Torin Monahan. New York: Routledge. Eubanks, Virginia. 2007. Trapped in the Digital Divide: The Distributive Paradigm in Community Informatics. The Journal of Community Informatics 3. Eubanks, Virginia. 2009. Double-Bound: Putting the Power Back in Participatory Research. Frontiers

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Consensus Conferences in Europe, ed. Simon Joss and John Durant. London: NMSI Trading, Ltd. Gurstein, Michael. 2003. Effective Use: A Community Informatics Strategy Beyond the Digital Divide. First Monday 8 (12). <http://ﬁrstmonday.org/ htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1107/1027> (accessed May 17, 2010). 246 References Gustavsen

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, and Simon Cole. 2005. Science and Technology Studies on Trial: Dilemmas of Expertise. Social Studies of Science 35:269–311. Mack, Raneta Lawson. 2001. The Digital Divide: Standing at the Intersection of Race and Technology. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Margolis, Jane. 2008. Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing

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in the United States, 1969–1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Mossberger, Karen, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Mary Stansbury. 2003. Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Naisbett, John. 1984. Megatrends. Spennymoor, Durham, UK: Macdonald Press. Nakamura, Lisa. 2002. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

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: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies. New York: Routledge. Pew Research Center. 2003. Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A New Look at Internet Access and the Digital Divide. A Pew Internet and American Life Project report. Washington DC: Pew Research Center. <http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2003/ The-EverShifting-Internet-Population-A-new

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-look-at-Internet-access-and-the-digital -divide.aspx> (accessed May 17, 2010). Pitti, Stephen J. 2003. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

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. Service Employees International Union. 2009. Our Union. <http://www.seiu.org/a/ ourunion/fast-facts.php> (accessed May 29, 2009). Servon, Lisa. 2002. Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Sewell, Graham. 1998. The Discipline of Teams: The Control of Team-Based Industrial Work Through Electronic

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service and caregiving, 65, 77 Engaged objectivity, 146–147 Environmental justice, 169 Epistemic liberation, 148 Epistemology, 132, 148 Equity, 23–24 and citizenship, 30 and digital divide programs, 36–37 and distributive paradigm, 24–27, 48, 147 and information economy, 53, 56, 77–78, 154, 157–170 and IT, 152 and oppression

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Technologies (DBT), 164 DataCenter, 165 Data entry employment, 72–73 Deliverables, 113, 118 Democracy, 105, 129, 132, 151, 163 Department of Social Services (DSS), 92 Digital divide critiques of, 39 origin of, 35 people-centered solutions, 45 policy, 36–37, 39 and social privilege, 42 and women, 37–42, 48 Dinkelaker, Pat

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learning, 115, 119 People divide, 39 Perera, Gihan, 168 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 92 Plugged In, 4, 166 Policy and digital divide, 36–37, 39 and distributional ethic, 25 and equity, 126, 163 263 and IT, 126 and justice, 154 Political articulation, 133–136 Political learning and

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popular education, 105 sample exercises, 193–213 and social justice, 126–127 and training, 126 Women’s Resource Directory, 114–119 Poverty, 61–64 and digital divide policy, 36 and diversity, 104 and information economy, 78 and IT, 82 and minimum-wage employment, 162 and technology, 8 and visibility, 30 Power relations

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, 4 Williams, Lee, 106 Winner, Langdon, 83–85, 97 Women African American, 58, 67 and caregiving, 75–77, 160–162 of color, 61, 71 and digital divide, 37–42, 48 earnings inequality, 58–62, 70 and educational disparities, 58 educational inequality, 67 and information economy, 71–77, 156–157 and IT, 82

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Center for Education and Career Advancement (WCECA), 120 Women’s Economic Empowerment Series, 6, 215 Women’s Resource Directory, 114–119, 215 Working class and digital divide policy, 36 and information economy, 57, 61–64, 78, 152, 156–158 and minimum-wage employment, 162–163 perceptions of, 104 and political process, 133

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

museum. The divide between those who make smartphones and those who consume them, particularly Western consumers, is just one element of what experts call the “digital divide.”36 As socioeconomic infrastructure becomes more and more dependent on digital connections the gulf between those who have easy access to high-speed internet and

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the people who make our emergent app economy possible are interchangeable, invisible, or unimportant.58 A Bigger Conversation Talking about mobile justice apps, sexting shame, digital divides, and appwashing starts a bigger conversation, one that moves beyond debates about whether smartphones are helping or harming society to a more dynamic discussion about

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control the digital terrain.16 The Institute for Local Self-Reliance shares the ACLU and ProPublica’s David and Goliath sensibility in the fight over digital divides, describing its mission as “challenging concentrated economic and political power,” and championing “broadly distributed” ownership, “human scaled” institutions, and “decision-making that is accountable to

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Households with Broadband Subscription by Household Income 2013–2016,” graph, https://upgradecambridge.org/digital-equity-in-cambridge. 39. Strain, Moore, and Gambhir, “AT&T’s Digital Divide in California.” 40. “AT&T’s Digital Redlining,” National Digital Inclusion Alliance, March 2017. 41. For an illuminating look at these

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digital divides, see Maria Smith’s video project Dividing Lines, https://youtu.be/E2AgxDT_494. 42. Hochschild, The Time Bind. 43. Lareau, Unequal Childhoods. 44. Board of

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. “Google Confirms the End of Its Module Project Ara Smartphone.” The Verge, September 2, 2016. Strain, Garrett, Eli Moore, and Sami Gambhir. “AT&T’s Digital Divide in California: An Analysis of AT&T Fiber Deployment and Wireline Broadband Speeds in California.” Policy brief. Berkeley: University of California, Haas Institute for a

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.com, 41 dick pics, 25 Dick’s Sporting Goods, 91 digital-analog political model, 104, 110–12, 145, 162 digital commons, 139–41, 156–59 digital divide, 28–29, 35 “digital exclusion,” 29 digital frontier, limits of, 82 digital justice, 17–23, 152, 157, 169n6, 169n13 digital networks, 143 digital platforms, 44

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

by Morgan G. Ames · 19 Nov 2019 · 426pp · 117,775 words

had supported missions to spread computers and connectivity to the far corners of the world, such as the Technology to Alleviate Poverty project and the Digital Divide Initiative, but the dot-com crash in 2001 had largely quashed the appeal of those kinds of technological visions. Even so, Nicholas Negroponte, a professor

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but concluded that Negroponte had not been given more of an official platform because the forum had moved on from the ideal of closing the digital divide to solving more “fundamental” inequalities.5 This tone changed considerably the following November, when Negroponte took the stage at the World Summit on the Information

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closer to Paraguay’s, as we have seen; it enjoyed more intensive infrastructural and social support. Plan Ceibal’s stated goal was to eliminate the digital divide nationwide, which the laptop program accomplished almost by definition: all children have received computers, and all schools have installed Wi-Fi, which means that children

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conditions necessary for change is mere access to its technology. Wooed by some of the same charismatic promises, much of the early literature on the digital divide similarly focused on questions of access.36 For OLPC, the idea was that if children just had XO laptops in hand and if they just

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Laptop per Child”; Landa, Graphic Design Solutions, 257. 30. “2B1” was a reference to a 1997 Media Lab conference and related foundation to bridge the digital divide, which involved both Negroponte and Papert but was spearheaded by Negroponte’s son, Dimitri. 31. Though I distinguish fetishes from charismatic technologies, it is worth

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Nación, “Alumna del cuarto grado.” 34. See Fejes, “Media Imperialism.” 35. See Wolf, Europe. 36. See Parker, “Closing the Digital Divide”; Wilson, Wallin, and Reiser, “Social Stratification.” For critiques, see Warschauer, “Demystifying the Digital Divide”; Richtel, “Wasting Time.” Chapter 5: The Learning Machine and Charisma’s Cruel Optimism 1. Papert, Mindstorms, 28, 44, 50

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at Large; Berlant, Cruel Optimism. Chapter 6: Performing Development 1. See Warschauer and Matuchniak, “New Technology and Digital Worlds”; Vigdor, Ladd, and Martinez, “Scaling the Digital Divide”; Malamud and Pop-Eleches, “Home Computer Use.” 2. Papert, Children’s Machine, 44. 3. Some schools had a morning session from seven to eleven, but

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to a Critique of Political Economy.” Edited and with an introduction by C. J. Arthur. New York: International Publishers, 1970. Mazzarella, William. “Beautiful Balloon: The Digital Divide and the Charisma of New Media in India.” American Ethnologist 37, no. 4 (November 2010): 783–804. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425

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Educa Wiki. “Boletín Trimestral de Paraguay Educa, 2009 Verano.” http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Boletin_2009_1 (site discontinued). Parker, Edwin B. “Closing the Digital Divide in Rural America.” Telecommunications Policy 24, no. 4 (May 2000): 281–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0308-5961(00)00018-5. Patel, Nilay. “OLPC

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. Richtel, Matt. “Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era.” New York Times, May 29, 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen-in-wasting-time-online.html. Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Émile; or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three

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Science 17, no. 3 (August 1987): 519–554. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F030631287017003006. Vigdor, Jacob L., Helen F. Ladd, and Erika Martinez. “Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement.” Economic Inquiry 52, no. 3 (July 2014): 1103–1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12089. Vota, Wayan. “How

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in the US.” Verge, May 19, 2016. https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures. Warschauer, Mark. “Demystifying the Digital Divide.” Scientific American 289, no. 2 (August 2003): 42–47. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0803-42. Warschauer, Mark, and Morgan G. Ames. “Can One Laptop

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Get Working-Class Jobs. 1977. Reprint, New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Wilson, Kenneth R., Jennifer S. Wallin, and Christa Reiser. “Social Stratification and the Digital Divide.” Social Science Computer Review 21, no. 2 (May 2003): 133–143. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0894439303021002001. Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” In The

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral · 14 Sep 2020 · 475pp · 134,707 words

geography, socioeconomic status, and gender. Developing countries lag behind advanced economies in Internet, social media, and smartphone access. But beyond the digital divide in access to social media, there is a digital divide between what my friend and colleague Eszter Hargittai calls “capacity enhancing” and recreational uses of social media. The economically advantaged tend

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words

up with them without subjecting them to scrutiny or questioning. The era is long gone in which an outfit like the Benton Foundation maintained a “Digital Divide Network” focused on unequal access to the web, which is monitored with monthly reports from “The Bridge.” The Benton Foundation and newer initiatives like Common

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’s not happening. Following the contested 2000 presidential election in the United States, the Help America Vote Act pointed the nation toward online voting. But digital divide issues of access aside, it eventually became clear that security questions made the option less desirable than many hoped it would be. A few states

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digital prototype for a parliament of mayors hoping to connect virtually to cities around the world.43 In the United States, the Benton Foundation’s Digital Divide project has mainly played defense, trying to overcome the impact of digital inequality by working to redress the continuing gap that keeps the poor and

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web may offer. As sci-fi prophet Bill Gibson has said, the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. The Foundation’s Digital Divide Network and Digital Opportunity Channel continue to press the case for fair distribution, for a more egalitarian and civically accessible-to-all web, but the

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, 187 Developing countries: segregation, 190–191; slums, 180, 188–189, 377n10 Dewey, John, 5–6, 281, 286 Dialectical view, 41–43 Diderot, Denis, 218–219 Digital Divide Network, 255, 263 Digital technology, 241–267; applications, 242–243; and big data, 245–246, 252, 258; and democracy, 251–252; and dissidence, 259; market

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words

to the Internet-- it is now home to the second-largest national population of Internet users--and still control that use quite substantially. 427 5. Digital divide. While the Internet may increase the circle of participants in the public sphere, access to its tools is skewed in favor of those who already

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] seem to be reaching higher penetration rates, and growth rates among underrepresented groups are higher than the growth rate among the highly represented groups. The digital divide with regard to basic access within advanced economies is important as long as it persists, but seems to be a transitional problem. Moreover, it is

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of access to various desiderata that the market distributes unevenly, both within advanced economies and globally, where the maldistribution is much more acute. While the digital divide critique can therefore temper our enthusiasm for how radical the change represented by the networked information economy may be in terms of democracy, the networked

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, 718-725 see also computers, 718 Diebold Election Systems, 403-415, 469 Diebold Elections Systems, 686-689 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 671, 729-736 Digital divide, 427 Digital sampling, 777 Dignity, 50 Dill, Stephen, 450 Dilutation of trademaks, 522 Dilutation of trademarks, 782-786 Discussion lists (electronic), 387 Displacement of real

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participation and, 200-203, 221-222 Human welfare, 255, 297, 427, 542, 550, 555, 568 commons-based research, 568-583 commons-based strategies, 550-554 digital divide, 427 freedom from constraint, 297-299 information-based advantages, 555-562 liberal theories of justice, 542-549 Hundt, Reed, 398 Hyperlinking on the Web, 392

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from other sites, 392 Weber, Steve, 205 Welfare, 255, 297, 427, 542, 550, 555, 568 commons-based research, 568-583 commons-based strategies, 550-554 digital divide, 427 freedom from constraint, 297-299 information-based advantages, 555-562 liberal theories of justice, 542-549 see also justice and human development, 542 Well

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble · 8 Jan 2018 · 290pp · 73,000 words

shows that cultural barriers, norms, and power relations alienate Black people from the web.20 After just over a decade of focus on closing the digital divide,21 the research questions raised here are meant to provoke a discussion about “what then?” What does it mean to have every Black woman, girl

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lack of diversity, stereotyping, and hate speech in the media. Indeed, some of these resources have been directed toward net-neutrality issues and closing the digital divide.76 Media advocacy groups that focus on the pornification of women or the stereotyping of people of color might turn their attention toward the Internet

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-first century. Part of the ethos of engaging African American women and girls in this initiative is about moving the narrative from African Americans as digitally divided to digitally undivided. In this framing, Black women are the targets of a variety of neoliberal science, technology, and digital innovation programs. Neoliberalism has emerged

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basis of the previously detailed research of Elad Segev on the political economy of Google. The resistance to efforts by Google for furthering the international digital divide are partially predicated on the English-language and American values exported through its products to other nation-states,19 including the Google Book Project and

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various communities. Among the most prevalent ideas about the political aspects of technology disenfranchisement and opportunity are theories that center on the concept of the “digital divide,” a term coined in a series of speeches and surveys by the Clinton-Gore administration and the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration

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. Digital-divide narratives have focused on three key aspects of disempowerment that have led to technological deficits between Whites and Blacks: access to computers and software, development

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characterized by access to broadband.18 However true the disparities between Whites and non-Whites or men and women in the traditional articulations of the digital divide, often missing from this discourse is the framework of power relations that precipitate such unequal access to social, economic, and educational resources.19 Thus, the

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context for discussing the digital divide in the U.S. is too narrow a framework that focuses on the skills and capabilities of people of color and women, rather than questioning

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prioritized through digital technologies, as well as the uneven and exploitive global distribution of resources and labor in the information and communication ecosystem. Certainly, the digital divide was an important conceptual framework to deeper engagement for poor people and people of color, but it also created new sites of profit for multinational

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corporations.20 Closing the digital divide through ubiquitous access, training, and the provisioning of hardware and software does address the core criticisms of the digital technology have and have-not culture

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of power relations by race and gender. Search needs to be reconciled with the critical necessity of closing the digital divide, since search is such a significant part of mediating the online experience. Digital-divide scholars have argued that increased culturally relevant engagements with technology, web presence, and skill building will contribute to greater

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in the raw-mineral extraction process to facilitate the manufacture of computer and mobile phone hardware. I raise this issue because research on the global digital divide, and Google’s role in it,23 must continue to expand to include a look at the ways that Black people in the U.S

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the production of components such as tantalum capacitors, used to make microprocessor chips for computer hardware such as phones and computers.42 Others in the digital-divide network serve as supply-chain producers for hardware companies such as Apple43 or Dell,44 and this outsourced labor from the U.S. goes to

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, 1995; Collins, 1991; Hull, Bell-Scott, and Smith, 1982. 19. See Collins, 1991; hooks, 1992; Harris, 1995; Crenshaw, 1991. 20. See Brock, 2007. 21. The “digital divide” is a narrative about the lack of connectivity of underserved or marginalized groups in the United States that stems from the National Telecommunications and Information

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Administration report on July 8, 1999, Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide. 22. See Inside Google 2010. 23. See Fallows, 2005; Purcell, Brenner, and Rainie, 2012. 24. A detailed discussion of this subject can be found in

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