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jessie daniels on the 'new digital divide'

JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Why @nytimes must there be a "new digital divide" ? Why this tired, dis-empowering rhetoric in which the poor are always "doing it wrong" ?
Wed, May 30 2012 05:00:45
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
At a time when tech products + use change quickly, it's really past time to retire the "digital divide" trope.
Wed, May 30 2012 05:06:25
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
@TippityTyping Everett calls "digital divide" a "disabling rhetoric" that obfuscates more than it illuminates re: tech access+use
Wed, May 30 2012 05:42:54
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
@TippityTyping The "poor ppl doing it wrong" rhetoric also maps on to Black/Latino folk "doing it wrong" w/ tech.
Wed, May 30 2012 05:47:15
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Then, came mobile technology which Blacks/Latinos hv adopted at equal or higher rates than whites, yet language of "digital divide" persists
Wed, May 30 2012 05:56:57
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
What troubles me most about "dig divide" rhetoric is not imprecision of definiton, but way it suggests smthg inherent abt those w/o tech
Wed, May 30 2012 06:01:00
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Better: "From digital divides to digital entitlements in knowledge societies" by Robin Mansell, lse.academia.edu/RobinMansell/P…
Wed, May 30 2012 08:55:30
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Also, see: Gunkel, "Second Thoughts: Toward a Critique of the Digital Divide" nms.sagepub.com/content/5/4/49…
Wed, May 30 2012 08:56:54
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
And, see especially: Anna Everett, Digital Diaspora sunypress.edu/p-4722-digital…
Wed, May 30 2012 08:59:22
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Classic ex. of "disabling rhetoric of digital divide" - check photo: s2smagazine.com/node/2279 < Blck woman just can *not* figure out Interwebs
Wed, May 30 2012 10:19:09
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Story (in previous link) leads with: "African-Americans and Latinos utilize the Internet half as much as others." but +
Wed, May 30 2012 10:20:28
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
further down in that piece: [Blacks/Latinos] "are ahead of the curve when it comes to mobile technology." < why isn't this the headline?
Wed, May 30 2012 10:21:59
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
And, then my fave ex: "You now have a situation where African-American and Hispanic consumers actually over-consume wireless connectivity"
Wed, May 30 2012 10:22:34
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
"Over-consume wireless connectivity" < you know, doing it wrong. Same message as today's @NYTimes story
Wed, May 30 2012 10:23:15
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
How might we think differently abt technology access + use if framed as a "human rights issue" rather than #digitaldivide ?
Wed, May 30 2012 10:46:17
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JessieNYC @JessieNYC
Human rights framework for discussing tech access + use also provides a way to address bias, discrimination + hate online. Can't w/ digdiv
Wed, May 30 2012 10:50:41
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