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Benefitting from Digital Opportunity: Do Socio-economically Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups React in the Same Ways?
Journal of Global Information Technology Management ( IF 3.0 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-22 , DOI: 10.1080/1097198x.2019.1679587
Bangaly Kaba 1 , Peter Meso 1
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ABSTRACT

This study investigates differences in Internet continued-use intention for socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged groups in Cote d’Ivoire by comparing their expectancy disconfirmation models. Its findings postulate that use-continuance behavior may be a viable proxy for understanding digital inequality especially in societies where the internet is readily accessible. In so doing, it provides an alternative theoretical framework for understanding and/or investigating the digital divide in various societal contexts in the current era where, because of significant advances in physical access to the internet made possible by mobile telephony and extensive diffusion of the internet, mere access is rapidly declining in value as a clear proxy for the presence, scope and/or intensity of the digital divide. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.



中文翻译:

受益于数字机会:社会经济上处于优势和劣势的群体是否以相同的方式做出反应?

摘要

这项研究通过比较他们的预期不确定性模型,调查了科特迪瓦社会经济上处于有利和不利地位的群体在互联网继续使用意愿方面的差异。其发现假设,使用持续行为可能是理解数字不平等的可行代理,尤其是在互联网易于访问的社会中。这样,它提供了一个可供选择的理论框架,用于理解和/或调查当前时代各种社会环境中的数字鸿沟,在该时代,由于移动电话和互联网的广泛普及,使得物理上互联网的巨大进步成为可能,纯访问权限的价值正在迅速下降,这是对数字鸿沟的存在,范围和/或强度的明确替代。

更新日期:2019-10-22
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