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The digital divide is a term used by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. ... ” (Gates 499-501) The term Digital Divide describes the difference between the white majority of people that have access to the World Wide Web, and the minority that does not. Digital Divide is used to describe a social change wherein one class of people has access to computers and all the information of the Internet, whereas another class has little or no access. ... In Matthew Symonds’ essay, “Government and the Internet: Haves and Have-nots,” he states that “The digital divide is not so much a question of access but of education. ... The essay further breaks down the Digital Divide into not only a racial issue, but a gender issue, as men are portrayed as “enamored of computers, want to play with them, upgrade them, fix them when they falter, compare theirs with the other guys’.” (Span 503) She breaks the Digital Divide into a situation where on one side, you have technologically adept males, and on the other side you have women who either have no clue how to use a computer or don’t care to learn anything more than simple word processing.
Approximate Word count = 969
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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