Modeling Ethnic Digital Divide Evolution Theories

This article presents the results of a Dodds-Watts generalized model of social and biological contamination implementation applied to technology adoption. We simulated four digital divide evolution theories proposed by Martin by setting the model´s parameters and using two societies divided by their average income. We also show how important is the threshold (inversely proportional to the income) difference between the groups, which is the only factor changed in three of these theories.