Digital divide The digital divide refers to inequalities between individual, households, business, and geographic areas at different

socioeconomic levels in access to information and communication technologies and internet connectivity and in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained. The digital divide in the United States should not be confused with the Global digital divide which also refers to inequalities in access, knowledge, and skills, but designates countries as the unit of analysis and examines the divide between developing and developed countries on an international scale Not only is access to online resources globally uneven, it has also been shown that the digital divide mirrors income inequality in western countries. It is there for not possible to talk about simple, universal, levels of involvement with, and experience of , new media. The raw data about the distribution of servers and PCs tells as much about internal difference within nation- states as it does about the division between the countries.