The key points of the document are: 1) Control over media content and experiences is established through intellectual property rights like copyright, copyleft, and Creative Commons licenses. 2) There is an ongoing integration of computing, telecommunications, and media, with the internet moving into all other media forms. 3) Digital divides exist in terms of motivations, resources, skills, and usage, and these divides often reflect existing social and cultural differences.

4. the black box fallacy

7. availability of technology

8. does not equal access

10. motivational access material access usage access skills access

11. the gendered nature of internet use

16. access and race

17. access and class

18. access and place

19. expectations of media versus media access and use

21. the participation gap

22. is pervasiveness the same as importance?

23. “ with the dominance of the cell phone, a new metaphor is emerging for how we organize, find and use information [...] that metaphor is the map [...] as this metaphor takes over, it will change the way we behave, the way we think and the way we find our way around [...].” from the New York Times February 17, 2009

24. Jorge Luis Borges (1946) “ in that empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the empire, the entirety of a province. in time, those unconscionable maps no longer satisfied, and the cartographers guilds struck a map of the empire whose size was that of the empire, and which coincided point for point with it. the following generations, who were not so fond of the study of cartography as their forebears had been, saw that that vast map was useless, and not without some pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the inclemencies of sun and winters. in the deserts of the west, still today, there are tattered ruins of that map, inhabited by animals and beggars; in all the land there is no other relic of the disciplines of geography.”