digital divide - origin of the term

[Jeff Prucher]

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>>  Subject: digital divide - origin of the term
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>>  An article dated 2009 at the edutopia.org website examined the history
>>  of "digital divide" and included the following claim:
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>>  http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-divide-connectivity
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>>  [Begin except]
>>  When all of the clues are culled through, it seems that Hammond, who
>>  today teaches law at Santa Clara University Law School, was the
>>  co-inventor, along with NTIA Administrator Larry Irving, of the phrase
>>  "Digital Divide." At any rate, in 1996, Newsweek Magazine named
>>  Irving, "Conscience of the Internet," and the phrase Digital
> Divide
>>  found its way into speeches by Vice President, Al Gore.
>>  [End excerpt]
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> Not much help here, but it seems that Irving publicly denied coining the term,
> although he may have helped popularize it:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070303170409/http://www.rtpnet.org/lists/rtpnet-tact/msg00080.html
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> Someone else has done a lot of research on this, as well:
> file://localhost/Users/jprucher/Downloads/secondthoughts.pdf

Oops, that link won't do anyone any good. I didn't realize that my browser had actually downloaded the file. This is the link from Google's search results:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.lib.niu.edu%2Fbitstream%2F10843%2F13143%2F1%2Fsecondthoughts.pdf&ei=EJafUZyzIsGViQKO5YHABw&usg=AFQjCNE1JKRPMF12km_AWOA2u79mORCIlA&bvm=bv.47008514,d.cGE&cad=rja

Same link, shortened: http://goo.gl/lGNsd

Jeff


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