A new analysis of three Pew Research Center surveys shows that Hispanic Americans own smartphones, go online from mobile devices and use social networking sites at similar, and sometimes even higher, rates than groups of other Americans.
The analysis, out Thursday afternoon, shows that the digital divide between Latinos and whites in this country is rapidly tightening.
“Between 2009 and 2012, the share of Latino adults who say they go online at least occasionally increased from 64 percent to 78 percent,” according to Pew. “Among whites, Internet use rates also increased, but only by half as much (80 percent in 2009 to 87 percent in 2012).”
Over that same period, the gap in cellphone ownership between Latinos and other groups either lessened or disappeared. In 2012, 86 percent of Latinos said they owned a cellphone, up from 76 percent in 2009. (Pew uses the terms Hispanic and Latino interchangeably.) READ MORE
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