Opinion: The Digital Divide between the Rich and Poor
There is an important topic in the communication area, which is the digital divide, meaning the gap between people who can access the internet or can ’ t. But nowadays, there are more and more people have internet access , but the gap still exist s , and even get larger, just like the help of quality resources from internet or distance education can rarely help the children from the rural remote countryside. Sesame S treet(1969), language learning TV show(the 80 ’ s), and the distance education(now),etc. those are things to help the qualified educational resources not longer limits by time or location. But eventually, what they did is to increase the difference between the children of affluence and poor children. The existence of these continually intensifies the polarization between the rich and poor. With the development of the country, the probability of a county that can ’ t access the internet or can ’ t pay for a phone has been cut down. Even the Dongchuan, a