{"id":4112,"date":"2016-05-17T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2016-06-03T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:53:44","slug":"vikki-s-katz-on-how-lower-income-families-respond-to-digital-equity-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2016\/05\/17\/vikki-s-katz-on-how-lower-income-families-respond-to-digital-equity-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikki S. Katz on How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are \u201cunder-connected,\u201d in that their Internet connection is too slow, has been interrupted in the past year due to non-payment, and\/or they share their Internet-connected devices with too many people.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Vikki Katz &#8212; Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, and Affiliate Graduate Faculty in the Department of Sociology, at Rutgers University &#8212; discusses how being under-connected impacts the everyday lives of lower-income parents and children, how parents assess the risks and rewards that connectivity can offer their children, and the implications of under-connectedness for policy development and program reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016-05-17_katz\/2016-05-17_katz.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016-05-17_katz\/2016-05-17_katz.mov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016-05-17_katz\/2016-05-17_katz.ogv\">in ogg for download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on this event <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016\/05\/Katz\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are \u201cunder-connected,\u201d in that their Internet connection is too slow, has been interrupted in the past year due to non-payment, and\/or they share their Internet-connected devices with too many people. In this talk, Vikki Katz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}