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Media Mention
Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News
Dec 17, 2009
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social networking giant at a rapid cli...
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Felix Contreras, NPR | Morning Edition
Dec 1, 2009
About a third of Americans have gone online using a cell phone or other hand-held device. And an increasing number of people are using the devices for activities such as texting, sending e-mails, playing music and instant messaging.
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Grant Gross, PC World (IDG News Service)
Sep 22, 2009
The FCC is about midway through a year-long effort to create a national broadband plan, and Blair Levin, executive director of the FCC's omnibus broadband initiative, said Tuesday he hopes he hasn't heard all the good ideas yet. "There's a lot of cap...
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More in: Broadband, Race and Ethnicity , Mobile
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Presentation
Sep 10, 2009Amanda Lenhart
Representatives from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the U.S. Internet Industry Association (USIIA) will discuss the new communities coming online in record numbers in the United State...
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Linda Wertheimer, NPR
Sep 2, 2009
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 growt...
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More in: Mobile, Race and Ethnicity , Broadband
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Media Mention
Riva Richmond, New York Times
Jul 9, 2009
Is the social media revolution bringing us together? Or is it perpetuating divisions by race and class?
Many of us would like to believe the Internet is a force for unity, but Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research New Englan...
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More in: Social Networking, Digital Divide, Race and Ethnicity , Web 2.0
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Sam Hassan, New America Media
Mar 8, 2009
A recently launched nationwide program will aim to help elderly Latino/Americans get comfortable in cyberspace in an effort to overcome one of the widest gaps in the so-called "digital divide" between those who are able to access and use the Internet...
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More in: Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide, Seniors