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While the lack of Internet access is still a problem for low-income communities as well as communities without easy access to reliable electrical infrastructure, this chapter seeks to examine how mainstream sites have failed to address the diversity or a digital divide in content on the web. The purpose of this chapter is to conduct a literature review to examine how the lack of relevant news coverage about the lived experiences of Black people is as much a factor in the digital divide as lack of access to the Internet. In previous literature and user surveys, participants often said that they did not find the Internet welcoming because they did not find content that addressed their needs (AOL, 2005). This effort strives to provide an overview of key studies that reveals potential gaps in the literature on this specific topic and that offers a new research path for studies on the digital divide. It includes articles that highlight the similarities in content needs among Black people of the African diaspora as well as African Americans.
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Sturgis, I. (2023). Closing the Digital Divide Among African American Consumers with Better Content in the United States of America. In: Akpan, U.S. (eds) African Media Space and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35060-3_7
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