Digital Divide: Blacks and the Mobile Web
July 29, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under technology
BlackWeb2.0 reports on a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report. Of interest to black netizens, BlackWeb2.0 notes:
- African Americans are the most active users of the mobile internet – and their use of it is also growing the fastest. This means the digital divide between African Americans and white Americans diminishes when mobile use is taken into account.
- 48% of Africans Americans have at one time used their mobile device to access the internet for information, emailing, or instant-messaging, half again the national average of 32%.
- 29% of African Americans use the internet on their handheld on an average day, also about half again the national average of 19%.
- Compared with 2007, when 12% of African Americans used the internet on their mobile on the average day, use of the mobile internet is up by 141%.
Read more on the Pew Internet & American Life Project report and BlackWeb2.0′s specific commentary on African American and the Web.
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