Tag Archives | Digital Divide

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Is Facebook a Human Right?

By on August 21, 2013 in Academia, Digital Divide, Facebook, Sociology

Hi Mark, I just read your Facebook post: “Is Connectivity a Human Right?” and I thought I’d share my perspective (and answer) with you. First off, you’ve discovered that not every individual in this world has Internet access. Welcome. I’m a doctoral candidate in sociology up the road from you at UC Berkeley. Yeah, that […]

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Big Data is Too Small: How the Digital Divide Leaves People Out

By on July 31, 2013 in Academia, Digital Divide, Facebook, My Talks, Social Movements, Sociology, Twitter

In my post on PBS.org’s MediaShift, I contend that Big Data is Too Small. I will also be giving a talk on the topic at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting on August 13 in New York. Here’s the lede: “The utopian hype over Big Data is being critiqued on many fronts. After all, it isn’t that new. […]

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7 Myths of the Digital Divide

By on April 26, 2013 in Academia, Blogging, Digital Divide, Twitter

Check out my guest blog post at Cyborgology on the 7 Myths of the Digital Divide. I have heard so often from pundits, colleagues and, well, the Internet, that either digital inequality doesn’t matter or it’s over, so I decided to write this post based on the most common tropes that I hear (p.s. class […]

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Pay Facebook to get activists to like you, to really really like you

By on August 12, 2012 in Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Facebook

Check out my blog post on Mobilizing Ideas on how a Facebook revolution could cost more than you think. Here’s a snippet: “…to boost the chance that subscribers see more of a group’s posts, Facebook is now charging them money for “promoted posts.” This policy change points to the continuing challenge to the utopic idea that costs […]

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