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Does IT make the Arts even more elite? Definition That information technology makes the arts, humanities and learning more elite/restricted to the privileged few. We take the elite or privileged few to mean the high-income OECD Countries The Issue The issue of this debate centres around the idea of the “digital divide” which describes the fact the world can be divided into people who have the capacity to use modern information technology such as the telephone, television, computers and the internet and those who can’t. This is due not only to disparities in wealth but also in disparities of: · Wealth · IT Infrastructure · Education · Culture o (eg. Most Internet content is in English or languages of the OECD nations) The Argument We will show that IT makes the arts more elite because it increases accessibility only to the privileged few. The Points Wealth · Disparities in wealth have always made the arts more elite because the higher income countries have had more resources to devote to the arts and humanities. This is nothing new it is evident right throughout out history o Plato and Aristotle’s Schools of Philosophy were only possible due to their empires position of wealth so you can see r