Henry Jenkins, director of the media studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said here Tuesday that the divisions are extending further to a so-called participation gap, which exists between teens who have 24/7 access to digital technologies and kids who can only get online from school or the library. “We’re moving from a (digital divide that’s about) access to technology to one that’s about access to social skills and cultural knowledge that emerges from access to digital technologies,” Jenkins said in an interview at Mashup 2007, a two-day confab on teens and technology.
Read this item from C|Net. Previously from WNM: Choice of social media reflects class divide…II
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August 10, 2007 at 5:19 am
[...] Read Why It Will Be Hard to Close the Broadband Divide from the Pew Internet & American Life project. Previously from WNM: Digital Divide evolving from a question of access, to one of social skills [...]