#warondrugs: exemplifying the digital divide
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#WARONDRUGS: Exemplifying the Digital Divide
Mary Emma BartonTrinity College: Data Driven Cultures
Spring 2016
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The Lost Generation
• 1971: President Nixon declares the War on Drugs• Politicians enact a slew of ‘tough
on crime’ policies
• Today: Over 1.5 million Americans imprisoned• Most incarcerated persons
belong to a minority, are poor, or both
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Language M
atters • One in six Hispanic men will face jail time at some point during their lives, yet only one percent of tweets are in Spanish
EN93%
OTHER4%
IT2%
ES1%
#WARONDRUGS: Tweets by Language
EN OTHER IT
ES
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Revealing Rhetoric
• The terms on the word cloud indicate a younger generation of ‘tweeters’ in favor of liberal criminal justice reform
#WARONDRUGS: Visualizing the Text
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The Smartphone SocietyNicole Ashcoff
• On the global scale, the production of smartphones perpetuates the digital divide
• As these phones are imported to the United States, the divide continues
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Public Enemy No. 1“America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.” –President Richard Nixon