Hi everyone!
I sent out my revision to Dean and Joe yesterday, and I look forward to adding two charts that provide a good illustration to what we're seeing.
In revising, two questions emerged as the most pressing (to me) as we think about the digital divide in the future...
1) How are people who use public access finding out about new sites and finding out how to do new things on the internet? This would help us understand how libraries can support building not just digital access but also building understanding of what can be done on the internet to increase one's quality of life. Some observations seemed to indicate that working in groups on one PC encouraged the exchange of information, but there must be more to it than that.
2) Why, in both 1999 and 2009, did our data show that approximately 60% of users are men and 40% are women? Are there long term effects to this "divide within a divide?"
Bye for now everyone!
Laura
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Good questions. For #2, when you get a chance, check out the New England article I posted below. They found that of 146 urban residents using public lib. digital resources, that females accounted for 60 percent of the total. It may add some interesting perspective.
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