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Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture

Second class netizens: Race and the emerging mobile internet underclass

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Napoli, PM; Obar, JA
January 1, 2016

An important question to pose as digital divide challenges evolve is the extent to which mobile devices close gaps in Internet access among demographic groups. Race has traditionally been a prominent dimension of the digital divide, with African Americans and Latinos consistently demonstrating lower levels of Internet access than Whites (NTIA, 2011). These disparities are of particular significance given the centrality of Internet access and usage to full and effective participation in economic, political, and cultural life. For this reason, the digital divide has been described as “one of the most important civil rights issues facing our modern information economy” (Carvin, 2000, p. 56).

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Napoli, P. M., & Obar, J. A. (2016). Second class netizens: Race and the emerging mobile internet underclass. In Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture (pp. 293–311). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315636801
Napoli, P. M., and J. A. Obar. “Second class netizens: Race and the emerging mobile internet underclass.” In Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture, 293–311, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315636801.
Napoli PM, Obar JA. Second class netizens: Race and the emerging mobile internet underclass. In: Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture. 2016. p. 293–311.
Napoli, P. M., and J. A. Obar. “Second class netizens: Race and the emerging mobile internet underclass.” Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture, 2016, pp. 293–311. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781315636801.
Napoli PM, Obar JA. Second class netizens: Race and the emerging mobile internet underclass. Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture. 2016. p. 293–311.

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