What are the consequences of being disconnected in a broadband-connected world?

Daedalus

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 17-31

  Horrigan, John B ^a  

^a Broadband Adoption and Use in America   (United States)

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EID: 80053262525     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00112     Document Type: Article

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3. For the former point, see Scott Wallsten, Understanding International Broadband Comparisons (Washington, D.C.: Technology Policy Institute, May 2008), http://www.techpolicyinstitute.org/files/wallsten_international_broadband_comparisons.pdf. On the latter point,
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10. See, for example, Henry Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, MacArthur Foundation White Paper (Chicago: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2006).
11. Pew Internet & American Life Project surveys, 2000-2009. These data represent the average total participation in each activity over each two-year period. Therefore, they may not exactly reflect the combined yearly tracking numbers. In addition, the wording of some survey questions may have changed slightly over time.
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21. The $55 billion cost of digital exclusion in the United States, derived by Econsult and the Digital Impact Group, often focuses on gross costs, not net costs. That is, the estimates concentrate on savings to using digital means for, say, health care information, without fully accounting for costs that may arise.
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24. Horrigan, "Broadband Adoption and Use in America," 32.
25. See ibid. for data reported in the following two paragraphs.
26. Ibid., 31.
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32. Horrigan, "Broadband Adoption and Use in America," 18.
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38. Horrigan, "Broadband Adoption and Use in America."
39. Levin, Universal Broadband, 24.
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