[DDN] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing
Hi everyone, I've just posted an overview of the latest report from the Pew Internet American Life Project, which focuses on home broadband access in the US and who's posting content to the Internet. Broadband access is up across the board, with middle income family access growing at the fastest rate. English-speaking Latinos are now almost as likely (41%) to have broadband at home as white families (42%), while African American families lag a bit behind (31%). Income and education levels continue to remain major barriers, though growth was seen at all levels. DSL access has become more affordable, though many more households cite speed as their reason for getting broadband (57%) compared to the lowering of cost (3%), suggesting that more people are willing to pay for it in order to gain the benefits of high-speed access. To me, though, the most interesting part of the report focuses on online content publishing. Overall, 35% of Internet users - 48 million people - have posted content to the Internet. Broadband users are more likely to post online content than dialup users - 42% versus 27%. This is especially true of bloggers and people who manage their own websites. While an average of eight percent of Internet users publish their own blog, 11% of broadband users had blogs, compared to only four percent of dialup users. And amazingly, lower-income users were a bit more likely to post content online than higher-income users, while whites _lagged_ behind African Americans and English-speaking Latinos - 32%, 39% and 42% respectively. You can download the 26-page report here: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/184/report_display.asp My overview of it can be found here: http://www.andycarvin.com permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/06/new_report_says_broa.html -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.andycarvin.com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.pbs.org/learningnow -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Remixing the web for social change
I want to preface this carefully. This isn't meant in a bad way - just a realistic way. It's not even a criticism. It's an observation, a question, and maybe a bit more - the idea is to get some people thinking, if possible. When there is an aggregation of information which is edited before consumption, is that citizen's media? It seems to me that it's a reinvention of the same thing that we had already. I'm a big fan of molecular media myself, and I see the sites mentioned below as molar - akin to traditional media. I don't know that 'citizens media' is an appropriate name, but I can't think of a better one. The only real difference are who the editors are. Ethan was pretty candid when I communicated something along the lines of this to him, so it's a recognized problem. Fred Mindlin wrote: Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California where the inaugural TechSoup NetSquared Conference is being held. The theme of this year’s conference is “Remixing the web for social change.” It’s bringing together representatives from the technology and non-profit sectors to talk about new ways of using the web and technology for social ends. [includes rush transcript] Today we host a roundtable discussion with three people who have been using the internet to help create a citizen’s media. From Brazil to Korea to all over Africa, they’re helping everyday people write articles, produce videos and maintain weblogs about what’s going on in their communities: * Hong Eun-taek, editor-in-chief of the International edition of OhmyNews.com, one of the largest participatory journalism news sites on the internet. The Korean site has about 40,000 citizen reporters that contribute their own stories. The International edition publishes articles submitted by 600 own citizen reporters scattered across 60 countries. * Ethan Zuckerman, blogger and activist. Zuckerman is a Research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is co-founder of Global Voices, a project designed to feature citizen-created media from around the world. He writes about Africa, international development and the media at his website, www.EthanZuckerman.com. * Saori Fotenos, a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University. She is founder and director of Vamos Blogar (“Let”s Blog”). Vamos Blogar is a literacy program that teaches children in urban areas of Brazil about weblogging and other forms of media. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1330245 -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking for contracts/work! http://www.knowprose.com/node/9786 New!: http://www.OpenDepth.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ Criticize by creating. — Michelangelo ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] As the Internet fragments
WGIG did come up with suggestions for the WSIS delegates to agree on - look at the huge background report at www.wgig.org And the delegates determined to continue the discussion in Greece in November. But there were some agreements in the Tunis document - ITU has agreement on certain issues, ICANN has agreement on others - IG is complex and involves many actors and organisations and regulatory bodies, so there is no way that a single agreement to cooperate in one forum will work to regulate the Internet - thus the IGF. Remember that IG is subject to national laws and cooperation (international and bilateral and other multilateral) agreements already existing - Interpol etc. are the organisations that have to handle Internet cross-border enforcement for illegal activities. WSIS did keep national interest in the Internet alive, so national governments are perfectly within their rights to manage the resources within their own countries. Jacqueline A. Morris On 5/31/06, Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norbert Bollow wrote: Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there are no agreements to cooperate in regulating the internet, Is there yet any reasonable, well-thought-out proposal on what aspects of the internetshould be regulated, and how? That's what WGIG was supposed to do. But basically they said they would talk about it later, in Greece. Perhaps they wanted a change in menu. :-) I lean toward a technological commons and the regulation being of people. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking for contracts/work! http://www.knowprose.com/node/9786 New!: http://www.OpenDepth.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ Criticize by creating. — Michelangelo ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. -- Jacqueline Morris www.carnivalondenet.com TT Music and videos online ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] mark glaser on dsl and the digital divide
hi DDN community - mark glaser, a thoughtful commentator about participatory journalism, is blogging about the pricing of DSL and the digital divide, here in the united states. http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/ if you have thoughts on the topic, you can pitch in via the comments on his blog. mark reads his comments and often refers to them in his blog. i find him to be a top notch blogger. if you have filled in your Digital Divide Network profile, you can list that as your web site when leaving a comment on this site (or other sites.) that will help the DDN community achieve greater public visibility. here is a collection of some model DDN profiles to give you some ideas of what you can write in your DDN profile. http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ddnprofiles.html you can edit your DDN profile by clicking on Edit My Profile at the top left of the DDN web site. then click on the About Me tab. your profile can include links to articles you've written, multimedia you've made and even links to other DDN profiles. granted, it's not easy writing about oneself, but you bring real value to the DDN community when you fill in your DDN profile. we are as one only to the extent that we are as one. - phil mark glaser lives in san francisco, as i recall, so it's especially important for DDN members in the Bay Area to be pitching in with comments on mark's MediaShift blog. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html Wisdom starts with wonder. - Socrates Learning happens through gentleness. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing
Andy, It is very interesting, and important news, that so many people are publishing regardless of income level. In a sense it *is about access though (you state on your blog that it is not.) In the US there will continue to be a sizable chunk of families, many headed by single mothers, who cannot afford land lines, much less broadband. (They do have cell phones now.) As educators many of us are acquainted with such families. I use as a touchstone to reality one family in particular, a woman with three children, the oldest in junior high school. The mother works early hours; she drops the two younger ones off at day care each morning at 5 am; the daughter in junior high school often does not make it in to school. Such families may own a TV and DVD player, but clearly, have no access to cable TV unless they steal it. (Ask yourself what you would do if you had few resources for your small children, and you happened to know someone who could set you up for free.) But although cable channels may be educational, the lack of cable seems not all that detrimental to children's futures (although exposure to the discovery or history channel broadcast could be life changing for a child.) Lacking the Internet at home, on the other hand, the children will definitely have lost something invaluable to their futures. These families are still not going to have access at home any time soon, or if they have it, it will in not match what others have. I don't have an answer, other than the creation of a CTC on every corner, or a free/subsidized connection in every home, but I don't want to forget these kids. Sandy Andrews On 6/1/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I've just posted an overview of the latest report from the Pew Internet American Life Project, which focuses on home broadband access in the US and who's posting content to the Internet. Broadband access is up across the board, with middle income family access growing at the fastest rate. English-speaking Latinos are now almost as likely (41%) to have broadband at home as white families (42%), while African American families lag a bit behind (31%). Income and education levels continue to remain major barriers, though growth was seen at all levels. DSL access has become more affordable, though many more households cite speed as their reason for getting broadband (57%) compared to the lowering of cost (3%), suggesting that more people are willing to pay for it in order to gain the benefits of high-speed access. To me, though, the most interesting part of the report focuses on online content publishing. Overall, 35% of Internet users - 48 million people - have posted content to the Internet. Broadband users are more likely to post online content than dialup users - 42% versus 27%. This is especially true of bloggers and people who manage their own websites. While an average of eight percent of Internet users publish their own blog, 11% of broadband users had blogs, compared to only four percent of dialup users. And amazingly, lower-income users were a bit more likely to post content online than higher-income users, while whites _lagged_ behind African Americans and English-speaking Latinos - 32%, 39% and 42% respectively. You can download the 26-page report here: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/184/report_display.asp My overview of it can be found here: http://www.andycarvin.com permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/06/new_report_says_broa.html -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.andycarvin.com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.pbs.org/learningnow -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/C1XolB/TM ~- WWWEDU, The Web and Education Discussion Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwwedu http://www.edwebproject.org/wwwedu.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwwedu/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Sandra Sutton Andrews, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ideal.azed.gov University Technology Office Arizona State University and Floaters.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing
Andy, Oddly enough I was looking at similar numbers when I looked at Democracy, Weblogs and Media http://www.knowprose.com/node/15180 The clincher here is that since 2002, internet penetration has doubled globally - with over 1 billion users worldwide out of a potential 6.6 billion. Yet, Technorati monitors 42 million weblogs (as of last night). It started with 12,000 in November of 2002. From the figures I saw... not the ones you see... 0.64618396230300616502886674536798% of people on the planet have a weblog. 4.1061205062857924964161413603235% of internet users on the planet have a weblog. I'll look at your numbers shortly, and do some more crunching. If there are better numbers for global internet penetration, global population and weblogs - I am quite interested. Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, I've just posted an overview of the latest report from the Pew Internet American Life Project, which focuses on home broadband access in the US and who's posting content to the Internet. Broadband access is up across the board, with middle income family access growing at the fastest rate. English-speaking Latinos are now almost as likely (41%) to have broadband at home as white families (42%), while African American families lag a bit behind (31%). Income and education levels continue to remain major barriers, though growth was seen at all levels. DSL access has become more affordable, though many more households cite speed as their reason for getting broadband (57%) compared to the lowering of cost (3%), suggesting that more people are willing to pay for it in order to gain the benefits of high-speed access. To me, though, the most interesting part of the report focuses on online content publishing. Overall, 35% of Internet users - 48 million people - have posted content to the Internet. Broadband users are more likely to post online content than dialup users - 42% versus 27%. This is especially true of bloggers and people who manage their own websites. While an average of eight percent of Internet users publish their own blog, 11% of broadband users had blogs, compared to only four percent of dialup users. And amazingly, lower-income users were a bit more likely to post content online than higher-income users, while whites _lagged_ behind African Americans and English-speaking Latinos - 32%, 39% and 42% respectively. You can download the 26-page report here: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/184/report_display.asp My overview of it can be found here: http://www.andycarvin.com permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/06/new_report_says_broa.html -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking for contracts/work! http://www.knowprose.com/node/9786 New!: http://www.OpenDepth.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ Criticize by creating. — Michelangelo ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
