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Digital Divides From Access to Activities: Comparing Mobile and Personal Computer Internet Users

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While sociodemographic differences are more influential, device type can increase likelihood of use for some “capital enhancing” activities, but only for a computer, thus, although mobile Internet is available for those on the wrong side of the digital divide, these users do not engage in many activities, decreasing potential benefits.
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Digital inequality can take many forms. Four forms studied here are access to Internet, use of different devices, extent of usage, and engagement in different Internet activities. However, it is not clear whether sociodemographic factors, or devices, are more influential in usage and activities. Results from an unfamiliar context show that there are significant sociodemographic influences on access, device, usage, and activities, and differences in activities by device type and usage. While sociodemographic differences are more influential, device type can increase likelihood of use for some “capital enhancing” activities, but only for a computer. Thus, although mobile Internet is available for those on the wrong side of the digital divide, these users do not engage in many activities, decreasing potential benefits.

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Lost in mobile? Exploring the mobile internet digital divide among Chinese college students

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that mobile-reliant users are not disadvantaged compared to non-mobile- Reliant users in terms of usage, with the development of advanced mobile technology and the wealth of mobile-friendly content available therein.
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The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a narrow stratification approach may miss the full cause and effect of digital inequality, and instead, a class analysis based on power relations may contribute to a broader and more precise theoretical lens to understand the digital divide.
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Digital Citizenship or Inequality? Linking Internet Use and Education to Electoral Engagement in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship among digital citizenship, digital inequality, education, and electoral engagement in the 2008 U.S. presidential election was examined, and the relationship between digital citizenship and digital inequality was discussed.
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Technological socialization and digital inclusion: understanding digital literacy biographies among young people in Madrid

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze young people's technological socialization experiences to build a comprehensive model of the distinctive digital literacies interwoven with their biographies, and identify which types of digital literacy are linked to the acquisition of digital competencies, confidence, and dispositions towards the incorporation of ICTs into daily activities; on the other hand, they also identify digital literacy that might engender motivated processes of self-exclusion from the digital realm, therefore reinforcing subjects' digital exclusion.
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“I Don’t Use the Internet”: Exploring Perceptions and Practices Among Mobile-Only and Hybrid Internet Users

TL;DR: Perceptions and practices among mobile- only and hybrid users (mobile and PC) indicate that mobile-only users perceived no differences from that of using computers, developed practices to circumvent their lack of skills, and perceived no need to include a more complex device, such as a computer.
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Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide

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The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society

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Mass media flow and differential growth in knowledge

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