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__Topic: Digital Divide__

The goal I have for this paper is to analyze the implications of having a digital divide amongst society. Specifically, how this digital barrier has helped us improve and how this has become a hindrance to mankind. Is there even a crisis at hand and if, not are we as humans following a trend or a type of adaption mechanism that others have failed to acquire? Furthermore, I will be paying attention to the four elements of the World Wide Web and how these aspects play an important part in the creation and maintenance of the digital divide: · The use of the internet has created minimal space, yet has this in turn created a bigger distance through interpersonal interaction? · Time and distance are obsolete through digital mediums. For many, the quickness of the internet and media are a convenience but to the digital-illiterate, the digital divide is an obstacle. Is the latter at a disadvantage? · Are the digitally illiterate truer to themselves? Do the users of digital mediums created an avatar or alter ego? (Facebook, forum names…) · Do digital mediums lack the credibility that published sources have? Who has the advantage? Essentially this paper will enlighten the audience on the aspects of digitalization that many of us ignore. Whether we choose to embrace or rebel against the effects of the digital divide, the purpose of this paper is to inform and not to persuade.

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