On September 16, 2010 Pew Internet Project Senior Research
Specialist Aaron Smith spoke to the Center for American Progress
Internet Advocacy Roundtable about three trends in minority
technology use. The outline of his discussion (along with links
to the relevant research) is posted below. One of the themes of
the Q&A involved the challenges in studying the Asian-American
population. For an overview of some of these challenges (along
with other sources of useful data) see our blog post on the
topic. Trend #1: The internet and broadband populations have
become more diverse over the last decade, although key
disparities do remain We’ve been measuring internet use and
broadband adoption since early 2000, and the general story with
respect to race and ethnicity is one of narrowing gaps combined
with continuing disparities. Over the last decade the internet
population has come to much more closely resemble the racial
composition of the population as a whole. Between 2000 and 2010
the proportion of internet users w