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Mr. ARMSTRONG: [. . .] a recent study was done by the Pew Internet in American Life Project. And it's called the Home Broadband Adoption 2009 study. [. . .] And what they found was that this was the second consecutive year of broadband adoption growth for African-Americans and Hispanics that were below the national average. So there's still a lot of catch-up to do, and some people could say, well, it's relevant, whether it's relevant to one's life - it certainly has some economic issues in terms of getting people the finances to afford broadband connectivity.

But we are seeing some hope in the mobile sector. It looks as if in a separate study done by Pew we're seeing that African-Americans and Hispanics are twice as likely to use mobile phones to access the Internet than a PC.

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DATA POINT

19%

The percentage of internet users who have posted material online about political or social issues or used a social networking site for some form of civic or political engagement.

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.