After reading “Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet” by Michel Marriot, I feel as though the issue of the Digital divide is being misinterpreted by the press and general public. Mr. Marriot enthusiastically states that as blacks gain access to the internet, the digital divide is closing. Not only does Marriot ignore other minorities, or even whites who lack access to the internet, he also does not pay mind to the type of internet that blacks are increasing gaining access to, which is normally through a smart phone. A phone, no matter how high-tech, cannot replace a computer; you cannot type on a phone, nor can post your resume, or apply for a job, or do taxes, or a vast variety of other things. Marriot also cites the increase of computers in schools and libraries, however, these things hardly provide a solution for the digital divide as public schools computer labs are not open use to students, and libraries hardly have enough computers in their labs to facilitate amount of people who need to use a computer on a daily basis. This article highly undermines the issue of the divide; blacks gains more access to internet through smartphones, schools getting computer labs and library computer labs all contribute and are helping to close the divide, however it is not quite enough to truly solve the problem.
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