Digital Divide Links

The Digital Divide

General Sites	Benton Foundation Library on the Digital Divide Committee for Democracy in Information Technology Digital Divide Organization Digital Divide Project Digital Equity Tookkit Distance Education and the Digital Divide Digital Opportunity Channel Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide Gates Foundation Digital Divide Martin Ryder's Digital Divide Links National Institute for Community Innovations' (NICI) Digital Equity Portal O ne Net Now: Bridging the Digital Divide PBS Digital Divide The Digital Divide: Net Culture The Digital Divide Network The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy The manifestation of one of the most influential modern educational theories, the 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.
US Government	Closing The Digital Divide US Government Computer and Internet Use by Children and Adolescents in 2001 This report uses data from the September Computer and Internet Use supplement to the 2001 Current Population Survey to examine the use of computers and the Internet by American children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17. NCES Report: Internet Access in US Public Schools and Classrooms, 1994-2001 This report presents data on Internet access in U.S. public schools from 1994 to 2002 by school characteristics. It provides trend analysis on the progress of public schools and classrooms in connecting to the Internet and on the ratio of students to instructional computers with Internet access. For the year 2002, this report also presents data on the types of Internet connections used. US Office of Educational Technology: The Digital Divide
Generation	Buddies target generation gap Coupland, D. (1992) Generation X: Tales of an accelerated culture. St. Martin's Press Douglas Coupland's Generation X Neo-logisms Sacks, P. (1996). Generation X goes to college: An eye-opening account of teaching in postmodern America. Open Court Publishing CO. Kaimail, G. 2003. Gen-X meets Gen-Y: Youth perceptions and concerns about the future: A review of the Literature. Foresight and Governance Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Schools Millennials Rising: The Next Generation America's rising generation, born in the 1980s and '90s. Millennials: The Next Generation Kids coming of age are close to their parents, comfortable with authority Raines, C. (2002). Managing Millennials. Tapscott, D. (1999). Growing Up Digital. Teenage Life Online: The rise of the instant-message generation and the Internet's impact on friendships and family relationships Thau, R. D. (1997). Generations apart: Xers Vs. Boomers Vs the Elderly. Prometheus Press. This book examines the social implications of the diminishing elderly generation and youth generation that are far exceeded in size by the baby boomers.
Higher Education	The Annual Beloit College Mindset List Sacks, P. (1996). Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America. Open Court Publishing Company.
Disabled	Federal IT Accessibility Initiative
Gender	Gender in the Internet Age Women in Global Science and Technology
Global Divide	Access to Information and Communications Data by Countryfrom the World Bank Group Daley, J. A. (1999). Measuring Impacts of the Internet in the Developing World World Bank Global Information & Communication Technologies Department
Race/Ethnicity	Carvin, A. (2000). Mind the Gap: The Digital Divide as the Civil Rights Issue of he New Millennium Novak, T.P. , & Hoffman, D.L. (1998).Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use. NUA internet Survey Data: Minorities
African American	Institute for African American E-Culture Digital Sojourn Hubbard, L. (2000). Is the Digital Divide a Black thing?
Chicano/Hispanic/Latino	Becht,D., Taglang, K., & Wilhelm, A. (1999). The digital divide and the US Hispanic population. The Digital Beat, 1 (13). Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology (IC E184 .S75 H365 1993 v. 4) Compares the culture of Hispanic groups in the United States--Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and others from Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. Topics examined include: ethnicity, intergroup relations, language and culture, technology and material culture, family, marriage and kinship, religion and ritual, patterns of health and disease, schooling processes, and political activity and organization. Hispanic Education Telecommunications System (HETS) telecommunications consortium of US and Puerto Rico higher education institutions working to expand the access of Hispanics to higher education and training opportunities through educational telecommunications and distance learning. Hispanic Information & Telecommunications Network, Inc. The Digital World of the US Hispanic II Study of technology usage among the US Hispanic population. The Virtual Plaza An interactive web site in English and Spanish for online learning Tomas Rivera Policy Institute Information Technology
Native American Indian	Digital Divide: Rural Infrastructure and Native American Evan Craig's work with the Digital Divide Indiantech.org National Indian Telecommunications Institute
	last updated 11.3.03