CST 361S Week 2

CST 361S Week 2

This week the concept of the digital divide was explored more. A book entitled, Stuck in the Shallow End was explored. In this book the digital divide amongst minorities, particularly African Americans and Latinos, was explored. It was examined that although these minorities have been given access to computers in schools, very little other a basic understanding of Windows has been explored with regard to furthering their knowledge in Computer Science. These racial groups have had a hard time breaking into the industry as they do not have the proper access and education in their youth. It was also explored in a video that America is lagging behind other countries with regard to the speed and access of the internet amongst it's citizens. This can be attributed to the big business of communications. It is not in the best interest of the large communication companies to give access to American citizens but rather find ways of increasing their profits. It was argued that a shift of changing internet access from from a privilege to a utility must be exercised. I agree with this. 

So far I have logged 22.5 hours with my service learning partner. I hope to incorporate images of myself working at the service learning site as well as images of the site itself. I hope to interview a few volunteers/ workers of the organization. Finally I will be attending an event on August 4th in which I will take pictures and video. The event is where the organization will give computers to high school students who are visually impaired at a summer camp in Ft. Worth.