Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: digital divides of usage, adoption, and dropouts

By Ronald E. Rice, James E. Katz. 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Media Technology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• From Cyber to Hybrid (2006, background): “Although cell phones have substantially surpassed the number of PCs worldwide 5 and appear to be surpassing the popularity of TV sets (Rice & Katz, 2003, p. 598), it is not possible to define a worldwide cell phone culture, because cell phone use differs substantially from place to place depending…”
• Text Messaging as a Tool for Behavior Change in Disease Prevention and Management (2010, neutral): “Text messaging demonstrates strong potential as a tool for health care improvement for several reasons; it is available on almost every model of mobile phone, the cost is relatively low, its use is widespread, it does not require great technological expertise, and it is widely applicable to a variet”
• Digital Gender Divide or Technologically Empowered Women in Developing Countries? A Typical Case of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (2011, background): “As more statistics became available and Internet and mobile telephony penetration rates began to rise, women started to catch up in many developed countries (Rice and Katz, 2003).”
• Using a multi-criteria decision making approach to evaluate mobile phone alternatives (2007, background): “Actually, the studies made on the growth of the mobile phones have confirmed that there are nowmoremobile phone subscribers than fixed line subscribers and probably TV owners around the world [2].”
• Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Internet Communication, Geographic Community, and Social Capital in Crisis (2007, background): “As Rice and Katz (2003) explain, people are concerned with communicating their message to meet their needs, not enamored of particular communication technology.”
• Older people and mobile phones: A multi-method investigation (2008, background): “…Studies 66 (2008) 889–901 891 the survey limits its coverage to people with Internet access (however, there was evidence of a highly positive correlation between Internet and mobile phone users and therefore, arguably the online survey could reach older mobile phone users (Rice and Katz, 2003)).”
• The Digital Divide: Current and Future Research Directions (2005, neutral): “Rice and Katz (2003) show that the primary factors predicting Internet usage are income level and age, while mobile phone usage is associated with income, work status, and marital status.”