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bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Here’s a good article on social literacy by race but it’s specific to youth. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/103460/overlooked-and-underconnected-exploring-disparities-in-digital-skill-levels-by-race-among-older-youth-in-the-us.pdf

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bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here’s one that gets more into ethnic variation of digital skills… basically outlining a connection between digital literacy and computer knowledge to wealth and education. https://nationalskillscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Digital-Skills-Racial-Equity-Final.pdf

bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ahhh… but here’s the core data you wanted to find. It’s a bit old though. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018161.pdf

bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social•1 day ago

In that you will find two gems of data up to age 65. The first one shows that digital illiteracy rates are higher among blacks than whites.

bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social•1 day ago

The second is because the population of whites is larger than blacks the total number of illiterate folks is much higher among whites.

bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social•1 day ago

So in an electoral context, the digital illiteracy of whites is likely to be a more of a contributing factor to getting Trump elected than that of blacks.

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