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Closing the rural broadband gap: Promoting adoption of the Internet in rural America
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In this paper, a survey sample drawn from four rural communities was used to examine the factors that cause broadband Internet service adoption in rural communities, including prior experience with the Internet, expected outcomes of broadband usage, direct personal experience with broadband, and self-efficacy had direct effects on broadband intentions.About:
This article is published in Telecommunications Policy.The article was published on 2007-07-01. It has received 266 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Internet access & The Internet.read more
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스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet
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TL;DR: In this paper, Sherry Turkle uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, virtual reality, and the on-line way of life.
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Crowdsourcing the Public Participation Process for Planning Projects
TL;DR: It is argued that the crowdsourcing model, a successful, Web-based, distributed problem solving and production model for business, is an appropriate model for enabling the citizen participation process in public planning projects.
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Rural development in the digital age: A systematic literature review on unequal ICT availability, adoption, and use in rural areas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic review of 157 papers on digital developments and rural development in advanced countries, focusing on the general conclusions, in order to better understand the potential impacts of the coming Next Generation Access revolution.
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NFC mobile credit card: The next frontier of mobile payment?
TL;DR: The research provides useful theoretical and managerial implications for mobile phone manufacturers, merchants, bank decision makers, software developers, governments and private practitioners when devising their marketing campaigns and business strategies.
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Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the danger of a growing digital divide between rural and other areas, and explore the problems of providing broadband in rural Britain, consider various techno- logical approaches and conclude with key development areas for policy and government.
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Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control
TL;DR: SelfSelf-Efficacy (SE) as discussed by the authors is a well-known concept in human behavior, which is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments".
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Diffusion of Innovations
TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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Comparative fit indexes in structural models
TL;DR: A new coefficient is proposed to summarize the relative reduction in the noncentrality parameters of two nested models and two estimators of the coefficient yield new normed (CFI) and nonnormed (FI) fit indexes.
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From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior
TL;DR: There appears to be general agreement among social psychologists that most human behavior is goal-directed (e. g., Heider, 1958 ; Lewin, 1951), and human social behavior can best be described as following along lines of more or less well-formulated plans.
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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present experiments and generalized Causal inference methods for single and multiple studies, using both control groups and pretest observations on the outcome of the experiment, and a critical assessment of their assumptions.