In “Social Distancing and School Closures: Documenting Disparity in Internet Access among School Children,” Ananya Sen and Catherine Tucker argue that school closures resultant from the covid-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted poorer, non-white children, who have[…]

In Why I Fight To Close The Digital Divide, Mignon Clyburn applied her personal stories to deliver a strong argument that having a Digital Civil Rights Bill is important. In other words, she stated the[…]

In “How to Close the Digital Divide in the U.S.” Bhaskar Chakravorti argues that although the U.S. government is attempting to close the gaps in the country’s digital infrastructure with a $65 billion budget, the[…]

In the TedTalk “Why I Fight to Close the Digital Divide?,” Mignon Clyburn argues that a Digital Civil Rights Bill is necessary to ensure broadband internet access for all Americans in order to close the[…]

In “The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected”, Nellie Bowles argues that the technological divide has drifted from the upper class being the only ones with technology to the[…]

In Bhaskar Chakravorti’s How to Close the Digital Divide in the U.S., Chakravorti defines what constitutes the digital divide and offers multiple ways in which the divide could be reduced.  Local and national institutions, affordability[…]

In Social Distancing and School Closures: Documenting Disparity in Internet Access among School Children, Sen and Tucker argue that the digital divide could be making educational inequalities between rich and poor children even more drastic in[…]

This NYT article discusses the shift in the digital gap. Originally, poorer families were concerned that the rich would have more extensive access to technology, therefore, gaining technological skills that the poorer would not have.[…]

In the podcast “Women and the Importance of Representation in Tech” the people being interviewed argue that tech companies have a problem and are in need of creating environments that promote diversity and equity by[…]

In Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment, Buskens analyzes the impact of social media platforms, like Facebook, on the empowerment of women. She discusses the issues women are facing on these platforms and how[…]

In this podcast with Bari Williams and Jossie Hains, the two women discussed diversity and inclusion in the tech workforce. The podcast began with the discussion of how to make DEI changes permanent rather than[…]

In Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment, Ineke Buskens argued gender equality and women empowerment on social media, especially on Facebook. Facebook hold promise for women regarding personal growth and social emancipation that physical spaces[…]

“Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment” assesses the relationship between social media platforms, specifically FaceBook, as it pertains to women’s empowerment, or lack thereof. This short but informative article discusses the relationship and hardships[…]

In “Race, Gender, and Information Technology Use: The New Digital Divide”, Jackson et al. Argues that there has been a digital divide since its inception, but that the divide has grown in both race and[…]

In this TedTalk, the presenter discusses the idea of the inequalities of technology on the basis of race. I had watched this TedTalk before, and continue to find it useful as these problems will continue[…]

In the TED Talk, “How I’m fighting bias in algorithms,” Joy Buolamwini talks about the prevalence of the “coded gaze” — also known as algorithmic bias — and points out that who, how and why[…]

In Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment, Ineke Buskens argues that social networks like Facebook play a role in how users view gender roles and thus should adopt gender aware practices in order to[…]