The document discusses several key issues related to the digital divide: - It describes how factors like gender, race, income have led to disparities in access to technology over time, with whites and higher-income groups most likely to have internet access. - It discusses efforts to close this divide by improving access in schools and deregulating the telecommunications industry to provide more universal access. - It also examines how marginalized groups have used the internet to carve out alternative online spaces of community and resistance against dominant social forces.

5. 2000 Percent of US Households with Internet Access 23.6% 12.6% Hispanic 56.8% 36.0% Asian/Pacific Islander 23.5% 11.2% Black, Non Hispanic 46.1% 29.8% White, Non Hispanic 41.5% 26.2% All August 2000 December 1998

6. 2000 Percent of US Households with Internet Access by Income, By Race/Hispanic Origin 63.7% 41.5% 17.7% 5.2% Hispanic 70.9% 38.7% 17.9% 6.4% Black, Non Hispanic 78.6% 56.7% 31.0% 16.0% White, Non Hispanic 75,000+ 35,000-74,999 15,000-34,999 <15,000 Salary 