Social Facilitators and Inhibitors to Internet Access and Use

Abstract

The current rush to put resources online — academic, educational, commercial, recreational, governmental, political, personal — is accepted as providing information and opportunity for learning and self-expression for all. But is this so? Who is online, taking part in this new way of communicating and learning? Who is left out when government information dissemination, commercial enterprises, and societal participation assume a digital presence? While statistics from surveys in the early 2000’s suggested that differences in access to the Internet across traditional categories of age, race, gender, and socioeconomic status are disappearing, more recent surveys have led to less optimism that the digital divide is — or ever can be — closed.

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