internetuse

Rationale
The Internet has been hailed since its inception as the ultimate democratic tool: accessible to all finally a functioning "Public Sphere" - where the lack of an evident authoritarian force and emancipation from one's private life could in concept offer an in-between commonplace free to all to discuss the "pressing issues of the times" (Habermas, Jurgen).

This set of statistics, however, shines a different light upon this issue. It shows the percentage of children from kindergarten to grade 12 who have access to the internet, separated by race, parents' educational acquirement and other family-related characteristics. In conclusion, this set of statistics challenges the common notion of the internet as a free-to-all democratic public sphere - in reality the internet is only democratic if observed within the boundaries of the "elites" of contemporary society.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/2004014.pdf

Process
Please view the contents of this directory: http://gardensend.net/ysdn2005/project3/