3.5 Additional Resources & Readings

Chapter 3: Differences Within and Across Familes’ Technology Use

Ongoing Research on Demographic Trends in Technology and the Internet (often inclusive of children and families and family issues):

Child Trends: https://www.childtrends.org/research-topic/families-and-parenting
- See additional research topic areas including poverty and inequality,
Kids Count: https://datacenter.kidscount.org
- U.S. and state-, county-, and city-specific data on children and families across multiple dimensions.

Shapiro, E., 9/21/2020. These families feel forgotten as NYC opens schools (homeless families). The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/3bVZn51.
Bowles, N., 10/26/2018. The digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-screens-schools.html
Blandin on Broadband (Minnesota foundation on broadband access): https://blandinonbroadband.org/2021mnbroadband/
- See 2021 Minnesota Broadband County Profiles — from Aitkin to Yellow Medicine.
Kids Count data on household technology access 2019–2020 (with state-specific data available): https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/11144-households-in-which-internet-and-a-computer-to-digital-device-are-usually-or-always-available-to-children-for-educational-purposes

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