[community] "Known But Not Discussed" - Nieman lab interview on news and information for low income people

Harnum, Alan aharnum at ocadu.ca
Tue Jul 31 17:04:03 UTC 2018


Some interesting inclusive design considerations in this article: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/known-but-not-discussed-low-income-people-arent-getting-quality-news-and-information-what-can-the-industry-do-about-it

“People talk about a digital divide in terms of technology, but it’s also there in terms of the content. We discovered [low-income people] are the target consumers for some products like payday lending, mortgages, for-profit online education. Sometimes that means people will create deceptive information targeted at them, like the woman at the community center in Chicago.”




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