Karen Mossberger

Karen Mossberger is Professor and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.  Her research interests include digital inequality, e-government, information technology and civic engagement, local governance, and urban policy.  She recently completed a multi-year evaluation of the Smart Communities BTOP program in 9 low and mocerate-income Chicago neighborhoods, as well as a 5-year citywide study to track changes in technology use across Chicago’s community areas (with Caroline Tolbert).  She is also co-editing a book on the evaluation of policy impacts of broadband, as a result of a national research roundtable held at the MacArthur Foundation.  Her December 2012 book on Digital Cities:  The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (Mossberger, Tolbert, and Franko, Oxford University Press) examines the potential for broadband use in cities, with national data to compare technology use across urban, suburban and rural areas, across the 50 largest cities, and across neighborhoods using a unique Chicago study.  Previous books on technology use include Digital Citizenship:  The Internet, Society and Participation (Mossberger, Tolbert and McNeal 2008, MIT Press) and Virtual Inequality:  Beyond the Digital Divide (Mossberger, Tolbert and Stansbury 2003, Georgetown University Press).