Digital Divide in the United States and Its Consequences

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Digital Divide in United States and its consequences
Despite the fact that people should gain information equally and people should have the same amount of access to information no matter wherever they are the digital divide still exist in the United States.
According to Wikipedia, Digital Divide in the United States refers to Inequalities that individuals, households and group of people face in access to information and communication Technologies (ICT).As mentioned “Home Internet Access and Usage in United States” survey it states that not all the people have internet access based on research table only 73.1 percent people have internet access in the 2008. It also indicate the not all the people who have internet use them daily the table shows only 57.5 percent people uses internet daily.
The one of the most shocking discovery was made by this table was the difference of internet usage between college degree and non-college degree people. People who has college degree has 5 times more internet usage than the people with non- college degree. Based on that article the college degree student has 7 times more like hood of enjoying the internet than the one with high school degree. We find that likelihood of person having internet at home fall down 5 percent each year increase in his or her age. In 2002-2008 period men has 30 percent les likelihood than woman having internet access at home.
The final part of the article suggests that the nonexistence or less usage of internet suggest some kind of economic or infrastructure constraint rather than inclination or ability to use the internet. The like hood for richer person to increase their internet access is about 40 percent to 60 percent more. The likelihood of male remain...

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...hat there were clear disparities between the knowledge of the low ses schools and high ses schools. For example websites were far more common in the high ses schools compare to low ses schools. Also research shows that the students who studied at low ses found it hard to compete when they change to the high ses schools. They have to work very hard when they start.

References

Bélanger, F. (2009). The Impact of the Digital Divide On E-Government Use. Communications Of The ACM, 52(4), 132-135.

References

Access to Telecommunications Technology: Bridging the Digital Divide in the United States. (2013). Congressional Digest, 92(4), 2-5.
References

Talukdar, D., & Gauri, D. K. (2011). Home Internet Access and Usage in the USA: Trends in the Socio-Economic Digital Divide. Communications Of The Association For Information Systems, 2885-98.

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