The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? / edited by Benjamin M. Compaine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Falling through the Net: A Survey of the "Have-Nots" in Rural and Urban America / National Telecommunications and Information Administration. 2. Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide / National Telecommunications and Information Administration. 3. The Evolution of the Digital Divide: Examining the Relationship of Race to Internet Access and Usage over Time / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak and Ann E. Schlosser -- II. The Context: Background and Texture. 4. Information Gaps: Myth or Reality? / Benjamin M. Compaine. 5. Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone Penetration in Camden, New Jersey / Milton L. Mueller and Jorge Reina Schement. 6. Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the Issue / Benjamin M. Compaine and Mitchell J. Weinraub. 7. Universal Service Policies as Wealth Redistribution / Milton L. Mueller --

III. The Advocates: Raising the Stakes. 8. Equality in the Information Age / William E. Kennard. 9. The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Economic Reality versus Public Policy / The First Triennial Review, 1999 / Mark Cooper and Gene Kimmelman. 10. The E-rate in America: A Tale of Four Cities / Chris Conte and Allen Gilbert / Edited by Andy Carvin. 11. Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal Implications / Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson and Sally Ann Law / [and others]. 12. Clinton Enlists Help for Plan to Increase Computer Use / Marc Lacey -- IV. Reality Check: Tracking a Moving Target in High-Tech Time. 13. Data from Three Empirical Studies, 2000. Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report / Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring. The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States / Cheskin Research. Survey of Americans on Technology / National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy School of Government.

14. The Truth about the Digital Divide / Ekaterina O. Walsh, Michael E. Gazala and Christine Ham. 15. Internet Access Spreads to More Classrooms, Survey Finds / Pamela Mendels. 16. Cheap Computers Bridge Digital Divide / John Simons. 17. This Internet Start-Up Looks to Conquer an Online Divide / Timothy Hanrahan -- V. What's It All Mean? 18. Of Gaps by Which Democracy We Measure / Jorge Reina Schement. 19. Falling for the Gap: Whatever Happened to the Digital Divide? / Adam Clayton Powell III. 20. Declare the War Won / Benjamin M. Compaine -- Epilogue / Benjamin M. Compaine.