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    1. AgriStar high-speed satellite Internet closes digital divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    AgriStar Global Networks, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2004-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21814
    Notes:
    Release distributed by AgPRonline, www.agpronline.com., "100% of rural America now has access to broadband Internet service."

    4. Declare the war won

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Compaine, Benjamin M. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36364
    Notes:
    Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages., Author suggests that the digital divide may be disappearing on its own through declining cost, natural acculturation and growing availability. Observes that the lower cost of living in rural areas may more than compensate for having to pay higher rates closer to full cost of telecommunications.

    5. Free American broadband!

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Turner, S. Derek (author) and Media Alliance, San Francisco, California.
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2005-10-18
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24388
    Notes:
    6 pages., Describes high cost of, and limited access to, broadband services for farmers and rural communities of Iowa.

    6. Getting online for a better off-line life: for organizers, digital divide is part of power divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wolfson, Todd (author), Mercer, Bryan (author), and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York.
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30692
    Notes:
    2 pages.