About My Term Research Paper

My project was about the digital divide and how it effects different people. I chose to write about this because I remember reading several articles in another CIS class about the divide. To do my research, I used google scholar and the ebooks that google scanned into their system. This is probably the first time that I really used their ebooks and I found it to be very useful.

The topic relates to new media because without the ability for people to be online, much of new media is unavailable to them. How can you read a blog or a wiki if you don't have internet or even a computer. In many areas of the world, it is not really a problem since everyone is still accustomed to getting information from newspapers, radio, maybe tv, and word of mouth.

Some interesting things that I have learned are that 3% of Africans have internet access, compared to 50% of developed countries. 76% of Africa's phone users use mobile phones. The US has 55% mobile phone of total phone users. Most European countries have more mobile users than landlines.