What impact does the digital divide have during the Covid-19 crisis?

Readings:
Ore, Tracy E., The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality, Oxford, New York, 2019
Hargittai, Eszter, The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, ch.26, p 306-314.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/map-digital-divide-leaves-millions-isolated-during-coronavirus-panic.html
https://www.prb.org/resources/resources/children-coronavirus-and-the-digital-divide-native-american-black-and-hispanic-students-at-greater-educational-risk-during-pandemic/

Please provide at least one paragraph for each question

1- What impact does the digital divide have during the Covid-19 crisis? Read some or all of the materials posted in the assignment summary about the digital divide. Describe at least two insights you found interesting or noteworthy. Explain why.
( For the first question please elaborate in at least two paragraphs.)

2- What is the digital divide? How is it different from digital inequality? Who is affected?

3- What consequences can digital inequality have according to the author?
Some have argued that the internet will act like an equalizing agent because it creates access to information for everyone. Does Hargittais argument support or reject this view?

4- Do you agree or disagree with Hargittais assessment? Explain your views.

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