The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth?

The set-up: documenters of the digital divide

Falling through the net: a survey of the "have-nots" in rural and urban America / National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Falling through the net: defining the digital divide / National Telecommunications and Information Administration

The evolution of the digital divide: examining the relationship of race to internet access and usage over time / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, Ann E. Schlosser

The context: background and texture

Information gaps: myth or reality? / Benjamin M. Compaine

Universal service from the bottom up: a study of telephone penetration in Camden, New Jersey / Milton L. Mueller, Jorge Reina Schement

Universal access to online services: an examination of the issue / Benjamin M. Compaine, Mitchell J. Weinraub

Universal service policies as wealth redistribution / Milton L. Mueller

The advocates: raising the stakes

Equality in the information age / William E. Kennard

The digital divide confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: economic reality versus public policy. The first triennial review, 1999 / Mark Cooper, Gene Kimmelman

The e-rate in America: a tale of four cities / Andy Carvin, Chris Conte, Allen Gilbert

Universal access to email: feasibility and societal implications / Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, Bridger M. Mitchell

Clinton enlists help for plan to increase computer use / Marc Lacey

Reality check: tracking a moving target in high-tech time

Data from three empirical studies, 2000

Internet and society: a preliminary report / Norman H. Nie, Lutz Erbring

The digital world of Hispanics in the United States / Cheskin Research

Survey of Americans on technology / National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy School of Government

The truth about the digital divide / Ekaterina O. Walsh, Michael E. Gazala, Christine Ham

Internet access spreads to more classrooms, survey finds / Pamela Mendels

Cheap computers bridge digital divide / John Simons

This Internet start-up looks to conquer an online divide / Timothy Hanrahan

What's it all mean?

Of gaps by which democracy we measure / Jorge Reina Schement

Falling for the gap: whatever happened to the digital divide? / Adam Clayton Powell III

Declare the war won / Benjamin M. Compaine.