Myths About the Digital Divide

12 Minute Edition

KU Diversity Summit [watch the entire summit here, or just my talk here]
Jessamyn West

Handouts & Files

• Slides - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Links to cited sources

Setting the scene

• Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide - book I wrote with companion website.
• Pew Research Center's reports on Internet & Technology
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• Competing media messages image
• ALA: State of America's Libraries 2010
• Jakob Nielsen's Three Stages of the Digital Divide
• Manhattan phone directory "How to dial" instructions
• IRS's Advancing E-File study

Common misconceptions

• NYC Broadband landscape report
• Flowtown Teens & Cell Phones infographic (related Pew report Teens and Mobile phones)
• Pew Internet & American Life Project August 2010 report about adoption slowdown
• Arbitron smartphone slide
• Non users would need help getting online graphic from Pew Home Broadband report
• IRS Advancing E-file Study

Final Words

• VLA blog post about disaster assistance
• Kimball Library strategic plan
• Occupy Wall Street photo
• Background image - Bookmobile from Kansas Memory