mind the gap

Mind the Gap

This article mentioned about a concept of the digital divide. “The digital divide is the ever-growing gap between those people and communities who have access to information technology and those who do not.” nowadays, many people will use the internet to obtain information, doing e-business, doing communication and making appointment. We depend on internet for our live. However, in some third world country, they cannot get the internet accessed, it leads them to obtain less information then we does. In the real world, we always use many internets communicating technology to communicate like MSN, email and skype. Those who have not access to internet will use the tradition ways to communicate since they have no idea about the internet communicating technology. we can also see that there is a trend that the traditional communications technology are tied with the internet, such as, some cell phone companies now offer cell phone internet access services. You can now download songs, watching instance stock market information, watching video from youtube, checking emails and even playing MSN though your cell phone. People will leave behind the world if they are not using that internet communicating technology. Moreover, the mass media sometimes will choose the topic that is newsworthy from the internet. After the mass media will report or set agenda for those topic, more cyber-media will focus on those topic. It will be like a cycle. The mass media is cooperating with the cyber media. They are also correlated. As a result, we have to know more knowledge about cyber media.

In my last word, I also consider that the writer talk about the “five puzzle pieces—access, content, literacy, pedagogy and communit” are related to the digital divide very much.