Subject: a reply about racial equality on the net
Curt Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:22:33 EDT
To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG Subject: a reply about racial equality on the net Message-Id: <19980505.122207.2383.4.cpriest@juno.com> From: cpriest@juno.com (Curt Priest) Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:22:33 EDT
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: No racial differences in Internet use after all
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1947,00.html
time.com / The Netly News
April 30, 1998
by Declan McCullagh and Lev Grossman
Two weeks ago Science magazine published a study documenting
racial disparities in who spends time online. The authors, Donna
Hoffman and Thomas Novak of Vanderbilt University, claimed that "race
matters in Internet access" and called for new community Net centers
to bridge the racial divide. It received tremendous publicity, landing
on the front page of the New York Times. Last week even our sister
publication Time magazine reprinted some of the findings under the
headline "World White Web."
Not so fast, says David Birdsell, an associate professor in the
school of public affairs at New York City's Baruch College. He points
out that data collection for the Vanderbilt study began in late 1996,
when Internet access was more a novelty and less a commodity. (Only
half as many people were online back then.) His own figures, collected
over a year later, portray a very different picture.
[...snip...]
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