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Measuring the Digital Divide

Measuring the Digital Divide. Christopher Stansberry. Access Digital Literacy Demographics Socioeconomics Need*. 70% have a broadband connection (FCC) 56% v. 21% low income students to high income students see access as “major challenge” (Pew). Factors & Statistics. College Student

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Measuring the Digital Divide

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  1. Measuring theDigital Divide Christopher Stansberry

  2. Access • Digital Literacy • Demographics • Socioeconomics • Need* • 70% have a broadband connection (FCC) • 56% v. 21% low income students to high income students see access as “major challenge” (Pew) Factors & Statistics

  3. College Student • Employed • Digitally literate • iPhone & Laptop • Elderly Woman • Retired • Digitally literate • Laptop & Smart Phone Interviews

  4. Teenage Boy • Student (Unemployed) • Digitally Literate • Xbox Live, Laptop, Basic Cell Phone • Adult Woman • Employed • Digitally Literate • Laptop, Basic Cell Phone Interviews

  5. Breimon, Glenna. Personal Interview. 22 April 2013. • "InternetEssentials.com |." internetessentials.com |. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <http://www.internetessentials.com/>. • "Lifeline: Affordable Telephone Service for Income-Eligible Consumers | FCC.gov." Home | FCC.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2013. <http://www.fcc.gov/guides/lifeline-and-link-affordable-telephone-service-income-eligible-consumers>. • Mossberger, Karen, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Mary Stansbury. Virtual inequality: beyond the • digital divide. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. Print. • "Nationwide Computer Donation and Recycling Effort to Help Narrow the Digital Divide | FCC.gov." Home | FCC.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2013. <http://www.fcc.gov/events/nationwide-computer-donation-recycling-effort-help-narrow-digital-divide> • Norman, David Jr. Personal Interview. 22 April 2013. • Purcell, Kristen. " How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project." Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2013. <http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teachers-and-technology.aspx>. • Schwabe, Amanda. Personal Interview. 22 April 2013. • Stansberry, Karen. Personal Interview. 22 April 2013. Works Cited

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