Gender and Technology

• "Women and Computing" by Karen A. Frenkel. This article discusses the lack of women in computer sciences careers and the reasons behind it.
• Women.com. Geared specifically towards women, this site seems an on-line version of Cosmo.
• Women and Computing by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. The site includes resources for women in the computer industry, as well as articles.
• Women in Technology. This a directory of sites about women in technical fields.
• "Gender Bending in Games" by Dr. Katherine Wright. This article discusses the phenomenon of computer gamers, male and female, choosing to play female characters in role- playing and other computer games. From Womangamers.com.
• Internet Society's page on women and technology. See also their digital divide page. If you only look at one site on this page (although I hope you'll check out a few more), check out this one (and take some time to look around).
• To the Web's Digital Divide page.
• PBS's page on the digital divide. Also look at their Links page.
• Statistics on Web Usage site on the digital divide from A Nation Online.
• Women-Related Email Lists for Cyberculture or Internet Information
• Silicon Salley: A site that encourages women in technology.

Technology and Economics

• Falling Through the Net. A Department of Commerce report detailing the demographics of technology use in American households, including telephone and electronic services. The report also talks about how people use the Internet at home.
• Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide. A re-analysis of the demographics of telephone and Internet usage and infrastructure in America, based on the 1997 census.
• A (1998) chart detailing computer ownership by income and region.
• A discussion on the digital divide according to race and economics.
• The Department of Education's Resources on the Digital Divide.
• 3Com's Urban Challenge. This foundation is giving away money to cities to try to bridge the divital divide.
• The Small Business Association's page on the digital divide. See also their outside links.
• The Digital Divide Network. This particular page lists "Digital Divide Basics." See also their Featured Stories page, and their Current Research page. Their outside links are good, too.
• "Economics and the Digital Divide": an article from Microsoft.
• "Reexamining the Digital Divide" by Benjamin Compaine from MIT. The upshot of this particular essay is that the digital divide will work itself out. Is it ironic that this is written by someone from MIT?? Warning: You need Adobe Acrobat to read this.
• The Finance Project page on the digital divide. Their outside links are good, too.
• "Defining the Divide" from GovTech.net.

Technology and Culture

The Cyberdivide can pertain to culture as well as to gender and economics.

• "The Internet and Minorities" a paper by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.
• African-American History and Culture. From the Hartford Public Library.
• Lee Hubbard's "Is the Digital Divide a Black Thing?" an article published by Salon.com.
• "Bridging the Digital Divide" from Riverdeep Interactive Learning.
• "One Internet, Two Nations" This page, written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is part of The Black Collegian Online site.
• Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Resources on the Web.
• Asian Studies Resources on the Web.
• Latino Resources on the Net.

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