With argument sources we take a look at the different viewpoints of Digital Inequality, this includes different viewpoints on the cause of it and why it’s still around or viewpoints on if it’s even worth being a controversial issue or not.
- Cohen Eric, “Technology Has Not Created a Digital Divide”, Gale, 1 January 2002 https://go-gale-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Viewpoints&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CEJ3010234208&docType=Viewpoint+essay&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&contentSet=GALE%7CEJ3010234208&searchId=R6&userGroupName=cuny_nytc&inPS=true “The divide is not yawning wider; it’s closing”. With this article here, we look at a viewpoint from the past stating that the digital divide was closing, you can compare this viewpoint from 17 years ago to the modern world today and come up with a conclusion as to why this statement is correct or not.
- Huffman Stephanie, “THE DIGITAL DIVIDE REVISITED: WHATS NEXT?”, Gale, 22 March 2018https://go-gale-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA531709941&docType=Essay&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&contentSet=GALE%7CA531709941&searchId=R1&userGroupName=cuny_nytc&inPS=true “The new digital divide is no longer based on the haves and have nots but about who can use it and who cannot”. Here you can see the this person is claiming that digital divide is no longer about who has it but about who can use it.
- Robertson, Adi “Elizabeth Warren proposes $85 billion dollar grant for expanding rural internet access” The Verge, 8 August 2019, https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758388/elizabeth-warren-rural-internet-access-broadband-digital-divide-grant-plan “The broadband office would distribute $85 billion to utility cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, tribes… giving them funds to lay fiber in under-deserved areas” This article speaks on the efforts made by Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren to close the bridge with the digital divide. She believes her efforts are the way to somewhat resolve this controversial issue.
- NY Times, “Daily Report: Digital Inequality Holds Back Millions in the U.S” NY Times, 19 August 2013, https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/daily-report-digital-inequality-holds-back-millions-in-u-s/ ” The Obama administration has poured billions of dollars into expanding the reach of the internet” This article is more outdated compared to the Elizabeth Warren article but it speaks on efforts made by the Obama Administration when he was in office to expand internet reach to millions of Americans who didn’t have it.
