digital divide - origin of the term

Fri May 24 22:04:35 UTC 2013

The date on the 1994 Nexis citation may be inaccurate. Here is a link
to an article with the same remarks by Steve Case but the date is
November 8, 1999.

http://business.highbeam.com/1208/article-1G1-57390801/coalition-business-nonprofits-and-government-partner

Here is an ABC News article with the remarks of Case, and it includes
a discussion of a book published in 1999.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99409&page=1#.UZ_ho9j4KDc

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:39 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Great thanks to DKB for the November 9, 1994 Nexis citation. The
> excerpt included indicated that the term "digital divide" was used by
> AOL CEO Steve Case with a sense emphasizing socioeconomic
> stratification, in my opinion.
>
> Special thanks to Jeff for sharing valuable information. The short and
> long versions of the link (in the second message) do work for me and
> lead to a PDF of "Second thoughts: toward a critique of the digital
> divide" by David J. Gunkel.
>
> There exists conflicting information about the 1995 book "The
> Emperor’s Virtual Clothes" by Dinty W. Moore. Some assert that the
> book contains the phrase "digital divide"; however, my email
> correspondent states that the term was not used in the 1995 book:
>
> [Begin excerpt email to GOT from M. D. Roblyer, Nova Southeastern Univ]
> However, I obtained a copy of Moore's book and read the whole thing,
> and it was never mentioned.
> [End excerpt]
>
> In my previous message I mentioned an article published on November 6,
> 1995 in the San Jose Mercury News. This article reviewed several books
> including the work by Dinty W. Moore. When discussing Moore's work it
> used the term "digital divide". But the reviewer did not state that
> Moore used the term. Perhaps the confusion is based on misreading this
> review.
>
> My correspondent also said the following:
>
> [Begin excerpt email to GOT from M. D. Roblyer, Nova Southeastern Univ]
> According to Hoffman and Novak (1998) from Vanderbilt, it was Lloyd
> Morrisett, former president of the Markle Foundation. I emailed him
> but he can find no record in his papers from that time, so he doubts
> he originated it.
> [End excerpt]
>
> (The message from David K. Barnhart (DKB) is on a different thread
> under the title "digital divide - JUST A BIT EARLIER")
>
> With appreciation, Garson
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jeff Prucher <jprucher at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>  From: ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
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>>>>  Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:41 AM
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>>>>  An article dated 2009 at the edutopia.org website examined the history
>>>>  of "digital divide" and included the following claim:
>>>>
>>>>  http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-divide-connectivity
>>>>
>>>>  [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]
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
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>> Same link, shortened: http://goo.gl/lGNsd
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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