Digital Divide

Playing with Rural Design: Design Probe Failure and Community Disconnections

This paper shares results from a study in rural Midwestern communities where traditional design probes initially failed, leading to development of more effective game-based probes that captured nuanced rural connectivity experiences.

Trade-offs in a Bigger Pie: How the Relationships Between Digital Civic Infrastructure and Political Participation Vary Across Rural and Urban Communities – The Case of Michigan

Drawing on a Michigan survey combined with public data, this study finds that the relationship between digital civic infrastructure and voter turnout varies across geographic divisions, with opposite patterns in rural versus urban areas.