Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide: A Report on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America

By Owen Adams. 2000

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Digital Gender Divide or Technologically Empowered Women in Developing Countries? A Typical Case of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (2011, background): “During the 1990s, researchers were quick to observe that women tend to be latecomers to the digital age (e.g. Dholakia, 1994; NTIA, 1999).”
Bridging Digital Divides: a Literature Review and Research Agenda for Information Systems Research (2021, background): “One of the first uses of the term is traced back in a US government report published in 1999 referring to the divide between those with access to new technologies and those without (NTIA 1999).”
From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use: A Literature Review and Agenda for Research on Digital Inequality (2004, background): “Since the mid 1990s, researchers have found persistent differences in Internet use by social category (NTIA 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002; Lenhardt et al. 2003).”
Using the Internet for Health-Related Activities: Findings From a National Probability Sample (2009, background): “Even though African American and Hispanic populations have long shown lower rates of Internet adoption as compared to white users [32,35,36], the current research suggests that once online, they are as likely as white users to engage in health-related activities.”