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The New Economy Revisited: An Analysis of the Digital Divide Among Financially Disadvantaged Families


  Author: Jennifer McLaren, Gianni Zappalà
Publisher: The Smith Family
Publication: Background Paper No.5
Document Date:                  2002
Category: Children > Children and the Media
Related Categories:
Family Economics > Family Income
Family, Religion and Culture > Media Trends
 

This paper looks at the extent to which children in low-income families have access to computers and internet technology.  It found that the vast majority of all students used computers and the internet at school, but that low-income children were less likely to have home access and, as a result, used these technologies less frequently than students from higher income families.

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