questions below. Provide references
1. Even though 44 percent of African Americans and Latinos
own a smartphone while only 30 percent of White, non-Hispanics do, many people
contend that this isn’t really closing the great digital divide because African
Americans and Latinos use their smartphones more for entertainment than empowerment.
Build an argument to support the previous statement.
2. When accessing the Internet, what can you do on a desktop
or laptop computer that you can’t do on a smartphone? If smartphones have fewer
Internet capabilities (than desktop and laptop computers), can you necessarily
link an increase in smartphone ownership within a U.S.-based
economically-disadvantaged group of people to closing the great digital divide?
Why or why not?
3. How does an increase in smartphone ownership in a
third-world geographic region like Africa close the digital divide for
countries in that region? If you owned a U.S. business and wanted to start
doing business in Africa, what would be an essential part of your marketing
strategy?
4. If you look at smartphone ownership by household income,
you’ll notice a fairly sizable dip for the category of $50,000-$75,000. To what
do you attribute this? Justify your answer?
5. Finally, will greater access to the Internet cause a
closing of the great digital divide? You can answer Yes, No, or Some. Whatever
the case, build an argument for your answer.
