Tag: RACE

Today, more people have access to broadband Internet than ever before. According to a new study (PDF link) from the Department of Commerce, however, Internet access is far from a guarantee in the U.S. -- especially for racial minorities. The report, which was published on Monday, finds that 68-percent of white households have high-speed Internet, compared with just 49-percent of ...

Eric Fischer has transposed the 2000 Census data to a map, showing the breakdown of race in major U.S. cities. Each dot represents 25 people, divided (as we always seem to be) by color: red for white, blue for black, green for Asian and orange for Hispanic. Check out Fischer's Flickr account for more sociological visualizations. ...

For people of a certain age, the mention of cross-country road trips instantly evokes the memories of youthful hedonism, the fragrances of patchouli and the stench of an old, gas-guzzling Volkswagen van. A group of college students in Canada, however, recently went through the rite of VW road trip passage in a decidedly more eco-friendly way. As Techi reports, members of the Electric Car Club at ...

You think you know the Internet. You can dart from one page to another with the greatest of ease, and are supremely confident in your search engine acumen. But what if your digital field of vision suddenly shrank? What if you found yourself hermetically trapped on one measly website, and you had to worm your way to a completely different page at the other end of the Web? That's exactly the ...

Share In a compelling article (PDF) titled 'White Flight in Networked Publics -- How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook,' Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd argues that race and social class were significant factors in the 2006 teenage exodus from MySpace to Facebook. As Technology Review reports, the author uses statistical and anecdotal evidence to ...

Transactions on Craigslist might begin anonymously, with both users safely shielded by the warm comfort of their computer screens, but when it comes time to actually make the deal, human contact -- and the anxiety it entails -- invariably come into the equation. You may do your best to sniff out the person on the other end of the deal -- and try your hardest to convince them that you're not a ...

In an age when everyone is looking for a competitive advantage, it's getting tougher and tougher for sports' rule makers to draw the line. What exactly is a performance enhancer, anyway? Well, in running, an iPod apparently qualifies. This morning, Jennifer Goebel was stripped of her first-place finish in Milwaukee's Lakefront Marathon after online photos surfaced showing the 27-year-old ...

A new study might change the way video game developers think when it comes to designing characters. If the data has an impact, you might see females saving the world from certain doom, or Latino and black characters portrayed as heroes instead of drug dealers or football players. LiveScience reports that researchers at the University of Southern California have discovered that females and ...