Dear Colleagues, Wenhong Chen and I have a draft article, "Digital Divides and Digital Dividends" which reviews Socioeconomic, Gender, Life Stage, Race/Ethnic, Linguistic, and Rural-Urban variations in access/use in 8 countries: US, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Korea and Mexico, For complex reasons, we can't post this paper now, but we would be happy to send it to you for your comments, as long as you don't post it. For a copy, please contact my assistant, Monica Prijatelj. <cinamon2000@utoronto.ca> Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 _____________________________________________________________________