Opinion: The real digital divide isn’t about access to the Internet
By Naomi Schaefer Riley April 18 at 10:53 AM Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor at the Institute for Family Studies.
But what problem are they trying to solve? The “digital divide” commonly refers to the question of who has access to the Internet, but at least when it comes to race and income, that gap is pretty insignificant. The amount of time teenagers spend on those devices, however, is significantly affected by both race and family structure.
These results are consistent with other, earlier surveys from Common Sense Media and Northwestern University. In fact, in the decade leading up to the BYU study, the gap between minority and white youths’ daily media use doubled.
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