%0 Journal Article %T The digital production gap: The digital divide and Web 2.0 collide %+ University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley) %A Schradie, Jen %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0304-422X %J Poetics %I Elsevier %V 39 %N 2 %P 145-168 %8 2011-04-01 %D 2011 %R 10.1016/j.poetic.2011.02.003 %K Digital democracy %K Digital communication %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/SociologyJournal articles %X How does class intersect with claims of digital democracy? Most digital inequality research focuses on digital consumption or participation, but this study uses a production lens to examine who is creating digital content for the public sphere. My results point to a class-based gap among producers of online content. A critical mechanism of this inequality is control of digital tools and an elite Internet-in-practice and information habitus to use the Internet. Using survey data of American adults, I apply a logit analysis of 10 production activities—from Web sites and blogs to discussion forums and social media sites. Even among people who are already online, a digital production gap challenges theories that the Internet creates an egalitarian public sphere. Instead, digital production inequality suggests that elite voices still dominate in the new digital commons. %G English %2 https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03821539/document %2 https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03821539/file/2011_Schradie_The_digital_production_gap_The_digital_divide_and_Web%202.0_collide.pdf %L hal-03821539 %U https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03821539 %~ SHS %~ SCIENCESPO %~ AO-SOCIOLOGIE %~ SOCIOLOGIE