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Digital Divides From Access to Activities: Comparing Mobile and Personal Computer Internet Users
Katy E. Pearce,Ronald E. Rice +1 more
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Digital Divide in Scholarly Communication
TL;DR: The digital divide in scholarly communication refers to the different magnitude of access, intensity of use, and level of contributions to scholarly communication that occurs in an electronic format within the academic community as mentioned in this paper.
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Building Our Own Bridges: How a Distressed Urban Neighborhood Bridges the Digital Divide
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between socioeconomic variables, attitudes toward the internet, different points of access and devices, and different types of capital-enhancing Internet uses, such as e-commerce, looking for health information, reading the news and job seeking.
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Political information search in “noisy” online environments: Insights from an experiment examining older and younger adults’ searches on smartphones and laptops
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined whether voters are able to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant political information during online search and how this discrimination ability influences voting decisions and found that older and younger adults' discrimination abilities did not differ between searches on smartphones or laptops.
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