You refer to this as the participation gap instead of the digital divide
I tried to use vernacular creativity as much as possible because it focuses on the practices of users in relation to their own lives;
some of the most interesting discussions of new labour theory in relation to network culture have been happening on the Institute for Distributed Creativity mailing list lately (https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-August/002698.html)
I found that the spaces that were most rich in examples of vernacular creativity were at the same time constrained in certain ways
the most active, intensive forms of participation seem to be taken up mainly by already-literate bloggers, gamers, and internet junkies
