Myths & Facts About the Digital Divide

MU LIS program, Colombia MO
March 19, 2012

Handouts & Files

• Slides and Notes: PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Links to cited sources

• Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide
• National Broadband Map
• Broadband availability in VT (pdf)
• Missouri Broadband maps & regional planning info
• Pew Research Center's reports on Internet & Technology
• Competing media messages image
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• ALA: State of America's Libraries 2011
• Broadband adoption in low income communities
• Jakob Nielsen's Three Stages of the Digital Divide
• Manhattan phone directory "How to dial" instructions
• NYC Broadband landscape report
• Flowtown Teens & Cell Phones infographic (related Pew report Teens and Mobile phones)
• Pew Internet & American Life Project August 2010 report about adoption slowdown
• Arbitron smartphone slide
• Non users would need help getting online graphic from Pew Home Broadband report
• IRS Advancing E-file Study
• William James and the Will to Believe
• VLA blog post about disaster assistance
• Libraries improving thigns: Sarah Houghton's ebooks post, Library Renewal, Change.org Harper Collins petition, Cornell's public domain decision, UMich Orphan Works project, Open Library
• Kimball Library strategic plan

Images

• Occupy Wall Street photo
• Background image "Fontbonne College. Students in library. 2 March 1926" from Missouri History Museum