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African Americans Most Active Users of Mobile Web

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A third of Americans have now accessed the Internet from a mobile handset, and over half have connected using other wireless devices such as laptops, games consoles, and MP3 players. A new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project also found that African Americans are now the most active users of the mobile Internet, with 48 percent having used the Internet on a mobile device, and 29 percent claiming to go online with a handheld every day.
“The notion of a digital divide for African Americans has some resonance when thinking about the wireline internet. But when you introduce the mobile internet, the picture changes and African Americans are the pace setters,” noted John Horrigan, associate director of the Pew Internet Project and principal author of the report………[read entire story]