The growth of high-speed Internet access in rural communities is a relatively recent event. In this exploratory study, we contribute to the literature regarding the Internet and local community by analyzing the influence of Internet activity on community experience, measured through community satisfaction and attachment, using the systemic model as controls. After surveying 24 rural communities in Utah, USA once in 2008 and again in 2017 with a cumulative analytic sample size of 2,236, we find a negative association between increased use of the Internet for amenity purposes and community experience. While our models show mixed findings that community experience has decreased over time in rural areas, we find evidence that Internet activities can affect community experience, strengthening arguments that researchers should control for more than merely Internet access. Due to the associations between Internet activities and community experience, we argue that rural policymakers should find place-based ways to strengthen community experience.

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犹他州农村互联网活动与社区体验之间的联系☆

农村社区高速互联网接入的增长是一个相对较新的事件。在这项探索性研究中，我们使用系统模型作为控制，通过分析互联网活动对社区体验的影响（通过社区满意度和依恋来衡量），为有关互联网和当地社区的文献做出了贡献。在 2008 年和 2017 年对美国犹他州的 24 个农村社区进行了一次调查，累计分析样本量为 2,236 人后，我们发现出于舒适目的增加互联网使用与社区体验之间存在负相关。虽然我们的模型显示出混合的结果，即农村地区的社区体验随着时间的推移而减少，但我们发现有证据表明互联网活动会影响社区体验，加强了研究人员应该控制的不仅仅是互联网访问的论点。由于互联网活动与社区体验之间的关联，我们认为农村政策制定者应该找到基于地方的方法来加强社区体验。