Digital Divide: Looking for Controversy

A student writes: “I’m not quite sure how I could make the topic of ‘digital divide’ into something controversial that allows the reader to form their own opinion.” Digital Divide: Looking for ControversyLiteracy Weblog)

I did a Google search: “digital divide” controversy and came up with a few good leads. While links from the first site returned by Google weren’t working, the next one featured a comment by a college professor responding to a ZDNet article. I also found “Digital Divide Fact and Fiction.” But any good academic article is going to include an assessment of the weaknesses of its thesis. A First Monday search for “digital divide” turned up 10 articles.