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"In a society where knowledge-intensive activities are an increasingly important component of the economy, the distribution of knowledge across the population is increasingly linked to stratification. Much attention among both academic researchers and in policy circles has been paid to what segments of the population have access to the Internet or are Internet users. Although the medium has seen high rates of diffusion, its spread has been unequal both within and across nations. In this chapter, I look at (a) individual-level inequality in Internet access and use in the United States, (b) cross-national variation in connectedness, and (c) inequality from the side of content producers in gaining audiences for their material online."

This article, from the news center of UC Berkeley, describes Schradie's study of the production gap based on her published work and an interview with her. The voices that tend to dominate the online sphere come from the middle to upper-class, not a representative sampling of the population in terms of online user-generated content.