NP Debunking the Digital Divide

[Doug Millison]

NP perhaps but certainly a convergence of themes Pynchonian...

"It is certainly true that there are racialized disparities in access. But
it is also true people of color have been producing, manipulating,
reconfiguring, and consuming technologies for decades. In fact, we would not
even have these technologies if not for the work of women of color in
Silicon Valley and in export processing zones across the world. And our
musical genres and artistic forms would be far less rich if not for the
artists and musicians of color who have been using technologies-the
computer, scanner, the sampler, mixer, etc. -- to invent and rework images
and sounds. But we don't ever hear stories about their interactions with
technologies because the digital divide has conditioned us to assume that
technologically disadvantaged means technologically disabled. As a
conceptual framework, it has no other way of interpreting the very
complicated relationships between race and technology. "
-- Thuy Linh Tu in the FEED Dialog: Debunking the Digital Divide

http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/27/2140239
Debunking the Digital Divide 
Join contributors from the new book Technicolor in a discussion about the
past, present, and future of race and technology.