The Impact of Racism on the Access to Technology in the U.S

Abstract

On the background of information age, racism shows a different influence on our society by the power of internet and digital technology. Therefore, the digital divide occurs, and it has significant effect of separation and create social inequality. Recent research on racism or digital divide giving little analyze on their relationships and further influence. Based on previous of digital divide and structure racism, this study uses data analysis to explore the structure racism and digital divide in United State. From the perspective of access, the impact of racism to digital divide presented and provides prediction of the crisis of digital divide. In the U.S., the technology provides a way of digital divide as extending of structure racism and accelerating social inequality. In addition, possible suggestions to addressing digital divide proposed in this study. With the rapid development of technology, structural racism and the digital divide need more attention, or it may lead to the deepening of racism and other social inequality problems, such as wealth gap, education inequality and algorithm bias.