Digital Divides: Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: This artifact has students collectively construct an annotated bibliography using materials about digital divides published on a research group’s Web site. This assignment teaches library database research as students locate and retrieve scholarly books and articles, read them, and create summary annotations relative to course discussion on digital divides. This assignment is particularly appropriate for first-year university students learning to use library research databases and scholarly citation styles. It also is significant in asking students to determine and reflect on the differences between scholarly and popular publications. This reflection could lead to a discussion of the paywall digital divide that separates people who are not part of the university community from being able to access peer-reviewed research