From the 'Digital Divide' to 'Digital Inequality': Studying Internet Use as Penetration Increases

By Paul Dimaggio, Eszter Hargittai. 2001

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IntroAssist: A Tool to Support Writing Introductory Help Requests (2018, background): “And yet, while a plethora of Internet technologies have been created to build professional connections, people still face social, psychological, and skill-based barriers to contacting others [14,16].”
The Third-Level Digital Divide: Who Benefits Most from Being Online? (2015, background): “…inter15 net use and online activities will confer greater benefits to internet users in life realms where the user already has significant resources at his or her 17 command (DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001; Hargittai & Hinnant, 2008; Helsper, 2012; van Deursen & van Dijk, 2011, 2014; van Dijk, 2005).”
Digital natives: where is the evidence? (2010, background): “…older population (e.g. Dutton & Helsper, 2007; Cheong, 2008) there are significant differences in how and why young people use these new technologies and how effectively they use them (e.g. DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001; Facer & Furlong 2001; Livingstone & Helsper, 2007; Hargittai & Hinnart, 2008).”
Do farmers gain internet dividends from E-commerce adoption? Evidence from China (2021, background): “…many scholars, insist that the development of the Internet only benefits the wealthy with better education and higher level of income, leading to a growing gap between low-income and high-income groups (Britz & Blignaut 2001, DiMaggio & Hargittai 2001, Bonfadelli 2002, and Clark & Gorski 2002).”
Reading on Paper and Digitally: What the Past Decades of Empirical Research Reveal (2017, background): “Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the digital world has become a one-stop text source, be it for news, recreational reading, or information sharing via Facebook, blogs, or tweets (DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001).”
Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet (2015, unknown): “For example, in Attewell and Battle’s (1999) study of home computer effects on the test scores and grades of 8th graders they find evidence of stronger positive relationships between home computers and educational outcomes for higher SES children, boys, and whites.”
The Digital Divide and What to Do About It (2003, background): “…a refined understanding of the " digital divide " implies the need for a more comprehensive term for understanding inequalities in the digital age ; DiMaggio and Hargittai ( 2001 ) suggest that the term " digital inequality " better encompasses the various dimensions along which differences will…”
The digital divide shifts to differences in usage (2014, unknown): “Several conceptualizations of the digital divide exist (e.g. DiMaggio and Hargittai, 2001; Katz and Rice, 2002; Mossber et al., 2003; Norris, 2001; Warschauer, 2003).”
All the News That’s Fit to Click: The Economics of Clickbait Media (2019, background): “This interest in the technological aspect of internet use has sometimes been too focused on the digital access binary, rather than the fact that skills are unevenly distributed among internet users (DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001).”
Internet adoption by the elderly: employing IS technology acceptance theories for understanding the age-related digital divide (2014, background): “Accordingly, our research enriches the existing studies of the digital divide (see, for instance, DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001; van Dijk, 2006) that refer to different types of access, such as material, skill, and motivational access without providing solid empirical measurement instruments.”
Rethinking Internet skills: The contribution of gender, age, education, Internet experience, and hours online to medium- and content-related Internet skills (2011, background): “A more refined understanding of the digital divide has developed, and several conceptualizations of how to approach digital divide research exist (DiMaggio and Hargittai, 2001; Kling, 2000; Mossberger et al., 2003; Van Dijk, 2005; Warschauer, 2003).”