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Digital Divide Does Not Apply to Mobile Web
Posted July 24th, 2009 by fjohnmar Tags:
PrintAccording to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, African Americans are more likely to use the mobile Web than whites. Specifically:
- "48% of Africans Americans have at one time used their mobile device to access the internet for information, emailing, or instant-messaging, half again the national average of 32%.
- 29% of African Americans use the internet on their handheld on an average day, also about half again the national average of 19%.
- Compared with 2007, when 12% of African Americans used the internet on their mobile on the average day, use of the mobile internet is up by 141%."
Data Source:
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Date Content Published By Source:
July 22, 2009
Additional Resources:
- Pew: Mobile Web Use Growing Fastest Among African Americans, Hispanics, MediaPost, July 22, 2009, www.mediapost.com/publications/
- Mobile Internet Use Shrinks Digital Divide, New York Times, July 22, 2009, bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/mobile-internet-use-shrinks-digital-divide/
- Mobilizing for Health, MobileActive.org Research Brief, November 19, 2009, http://mobileactive.org/research/mobilizing-health
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