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Education, Race, and Internet Use
Sources of News
A reader recently questioned the relationship
between education and Internet use, in particular citing the graph showing
that college students now get the majority of their news from the Internet.
Although the relationship may come as a surprise to some people, evidence is now clear.
I'll reproduce graphs that illustrate this from three perspectives.
Note in the graph on the left below that while only about 22% of people without a high school education use the Internet, almost 90% of people with a college education regularly surf the Net. The graph on the right shows that Internet use almost doubles according to race.
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Many people feel
that because of the personal and vocational advantages inherent in Internet
and electronic communication proficiency, the disparity between the "haves"
and the "have nots" is now being accelerated.
This clearly carries a message for countries and schools that prohibit or discourage Internet use.
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