As I said in my previous post, I plan to cover in my final paper how cell phones are helping to bridge the digital divide. After looking through some sources I have found that I can focus on the topic at a global scale rather than just in the United States. Below are each of my five sources I have chosen and a brief explanation as to how I want to use them.
I will start off with Adriana de Souza e Silva's article, "From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces." I plan to use some of her examples about the blur between the digital and physical world to show that the digital divide has been bridged so much that the digital and physical worlds are now the same thing, they overlap.
My second article I chose is "Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency?" by Robert Hunter Wade. This article will be my source of opposition arguments to mine. I will use Wade's arguments for the downsides of bringing digital technology to everyone and then combat it with my own arguments.
The third article is titled "Flood, Famine and Mobile Phones." It was posted in The Economist and it will be a source of examples for how cell phones are used in disaster relief areas in third world countries. There are some good examples here of how cellphones are used in areas we thought didn't have the technology, proof that the divide is slowly closing.
For my fourth article I chose an article published on Red Herring titled "Mobile Phones Narrow Digital Divide." This article will be the main source of statistics for me. Even though it is a short article it has a lot of useful facts about the spread of digital technology around the world to both rich and poor nations.
My final article is "Mobile Phone Use in a Developing Country: A Malaysian Empirical Study" by Paul Yeow, Yee Yen Yuen, and Regina Connolly. This article covers both positive and negative aspects to the use of mobile phone technology in Asia and more specifically Malaysia. This will be a good source for the use of digital technology in underdeveloped areas.
Works Cited
de Souza e Silva, Adriana. "From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces." The Cybercultures Reader. Ed. David Bell and Barbara Kennedy. New York: Routledge. 757-769.
"Flood, Famine, and Mobile Phones." Economist 384.8539 (2007): 61-62. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 26 Mar 2010. < http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2063/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=25952105&site=ehost-live >.
"Mobile Phones Narrow Digital Divide." Red Herring (2008): 5. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 26 Mar 2010. < http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2063/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=36876096&site=ehost-live >.
Wade, Robert Hunter. "Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency?." Global Governance 8.4 (2002): 443-466. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 26 Mar 2010. < http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2063/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=8735617&site=ehost-live >.
Yeow, Paul H.P., Yee Yen Yuen and Regina Connolly. "Mobile Phone Use in a Developing Country: A Malaysian Empirical Study." Journal of Urban Technology 15:1 (2008): 85-116. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 26 Mar 2010. < http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2063/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=32744030&site=ehost-live >.
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So, are you saying that your argument is going to be something along the lines that mobile technology, more than any other technology, is bridging the digital divide? If so, that is ok. But make sure your argument is specific -- if you are still investigating, as you say, then perhaps you don't know specifically what it will be. But you'll have to be very specific eventually.
ReplyDeleteYou will also need to firmly ground the definition of "digital divide" that you are basing your argument on; see class readings, among others.
In blog post "Class Notes #3 (01/19)" I linked to updated surveys/statistics that will be useful to you.
* Contact me via e-mail if you want to work out any aspects of your argument or organization along the way, or to evaluate scholarly sources (provide citation and annotation in the e-mail), or to bounce presentation ideas off me.