Does 'Digital Divide' Rhetoric Do More Harm Than Good?

Some scholars fear that the discussion discourages the creation of content

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Warnings about a continuing "digital divide" could be doing more harm than good to African-Americans and other minority groups, portraying them as technophobic charity cases who lack the desire to adopt new technologies on their own. That's the conclusion some scholars are...

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