Ingrid Sturgis's List: digital divide

It remains to be seen to what extent mobile affords opportunities for content production and exploration, as opposed to simply being a quick way to access traditional entertainment, like TV, music and videos.
“Access, it turns out, is only half the battle,” Watkins says. “The question that we have to consider is: After access, now what?”

Text message (70% of all African-Americans and English-speaking Latinos use text messaging, vs. just over half of whites)
Use social networking sites
Use the internet
Record and watch videos
Make a charitable donation via text message (this finding is particularly interesting since white internet users are more likely to have made a charitable donation online—25% of online whites have done so, compared with 17% of African-Americans and 14% of Latinos.)
Use email
Play games
Listen to music
Use instant messaging
Post multimedia content online
This move towards a mobile world can also be seen in our computer ownership trends. Although African-Americans are significantly less likely than whites to own a desktop computer, all three groups now have equal levels of laptop ownership (roughly half of all three groups do so). This parity in black laptop ownership is actually a fairly recent development—laptop ownership by African-Americans rose fairly dramatically over the last year (from 34% in 2009 to 51% now).

Minority Americans are comparable to whites in their ownership of mp3 players (around half in each group do so) and are slightly more likely to own a

" Taking into account participatory politics, institutional politics, and voting, engagement is highest among Black youth, with only 25% reporting no engagement in any form of political behavior, compared with 33% of whites, 40% of Asian Americans, and 43% of Latinos.
• Youth believe they would benefit from learning how to judge the credibility of what they find online. Survey respondents were asked, “Do you think people like you and your friends would benefit from learning more about how to tell if news and information you find online is trustworthy?”—84 percent said, “Yes.”"