At Mobile Active they link to a new study which finally manage to get som quantitative data together on the use of broadband and cell phone technology among hispanics in the US. The major conclusions interestingly states:
While Hispanics trail other U.S. populations in overall Internet access, they are among the most avid users of mobile broadband. In fact, Hispanics and African Americans lead mobile broadband use (53% and 58% respectively), with both communities far ahead of Whites (33%).
This is really remarkable news and proves that technology offer new ways to address issues of health care, education and social justice. But also it also asks that strategies for organizing need to adapt and develop according the diverse constituencies who are targeted. Calls for action and engagement need to be addressed through the media tools that are already used. From a European perspective it seems clear that there is little awareness of how to organize in diverse societies where use of media, cell phones and broadband vary within different groups. In current debates on minority issues in the US groups such as Voto Latino demonstrate that minorities organize strongly around cell phone campaigns, MySpace and youtube. Their latest campaign is challenging intolerant TV-host Lou Dobbs of CNN, who throughout the summer was promoting the nutty Birth-conspiracy on the validity of Obamas birthcertificate:
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