Digital inclusion through mobile phones?: A comparison between mobile-only and computer users in internet access, skills and use

Correa, Teresa; Pavez, Isabel; Contreras, Javier

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2018.1555270

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“…Some researchers feel that smartphone only access to the Internet is creating a new type of "mobile underclass" with fewer digital skills and more passive online involvement (Napoli and Obar 2014). Studies from diverse countries including The Netherlands and Chile report less information seeking, active participation and variety of Internet use when access is only by smartphone (van Deursen and van Dijk 2019; Correa et al 2018). In a US study of smartphone users over age 18, 87% of smartphone time was spent on apps and only 13% on the Internet (ComScore 2017b).…”

Section: Help To Improve Digital Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns

Bauer

Glenn²,

Geddes

et al. 2020

Int J Bipolar Disord

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There has been increasing interest in the use of smartphone applications (apps) and other consumer technology in mental health care for a number of years. However, the vision of data from apps seamlessly returned to, and integrated in, the electronic medical record (EMR) to assist both psychiatrists and patients has not been widely achieved, due in part to complex issues involved in the use of smartphone and other consumer technology in psychiatry. These issues include consumer technology usage, clinical utility, commercialization, and evolving consumer technology. Technological, legal and commercial issues, as well as medical issues, will determine the role of consumer technology in psychiatry. Recommendations for a more productive direction for the use of consumer technology in psychiatry are provided.

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Section: Help To Improve Digital Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns

Bauer

Glenn²,

Geddes

et al. 2020

Int J Bipolar Disord

120

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“…In addition, the strong policy emphasis on mobile coverage has led to a significant increase in mobile-only users, particularly through smartphones (Correa, Pavez, & Contreras, 2018). Although it represents an affordable and easier-to-use mode of access, mobile-only use is associated with lower levels of digital skills and fewer types of internet uses (Napoli & Obar, 2014).…”

Section: Digital Inclusion In Chilementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean

Robinson

Schulz

Dodel

et al. 2020

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This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic disparities. We find that public policy can effectively reduce access gaps when it combines the trifecta of network, device, and skill provision, especially through educational institutions. We also note, that urban populations have benefitted from digital inclusion strategies to a greater degree. This underscores that, no matter the national context, rural-urban digital inequality (and often associated economic inequality) is resistant to change. Even when access is provided, potential users may not find it affordable, lack skills, and/or see no benefit in adoption. We see the greatest potential for future digital inclusion in two related approaches: 1) initiatives that connect with hard-to-reach, remote, and rural communities outside urban cores and 2) initiatives that learn from communities about how best to provide digital resources while respecting their diversely situated contexts, while meeting social, economic and political needs.

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“…Substantial research has indicated sequential relationship between internet skills and online engagement (Blank 2013;Correa 2016;Correa, Pavez, and Contreras 2020;Hargittai 2010;Helsper and Eynon 2013;Reisdorf, Petrov ci c, and Gro selj 2020;van Deursen and van Dijk 2015a). Several recent studies also confirmed the compound relationship between different types of internet skills van Deursen and van Dijk 2015a;van Deursen, van Dijk, and Peters 2011).…”

Section: Internet Skills and Digital Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 90%

Measuring internet skills in a general population: A large-scale validation of the short Internet Skills Scale in Slovenia

Grosĕlj

Deursen

Dolničar

et al. 2021

The Information Society

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This study assessed the construct and criterion validity of the short version of the Internet Skills Scale and examined whether its four dimensions -Operational, Information Navigation, Social, and Creative skillsare influenced by a higher-order dimension of general internet skills as one second-order factor. In 2018, a face-to-face survey comprising of the 20-item Internet Skills Scale and 22 other items related to digital inclusion was conducted in a sample of 814 internet users in Slovenia. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as other multivariate methods, showed that the Internet Skills Scale is characterized by high to adequate convergent and divergent validity. Acceptable criterion validity was observed for Operational and Information Navigation skills. In terms of measurement invariance, the data supported configural and metric invariance, whereas the scalar invariance was not fully confirmed, suggesting that older adults' lower scores on the Creative skills items were not related to lower levels of internet skills in the same way as they were among younger individuals. Last, the results provided original evidence of the Internet Skills Scale as a second-order construct, meaning that a single summative Internet Skills Scale score could be created as an adequate measure of an individual's internet skills.

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Digital inclusion through mobile phones?: A comparison between mobile-only and computer users in internet access, skills and use

Cited by 80 publications

References 33 publications

Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns

Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns

Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean

Measuring internet skills in a general population: A large-scale validation of the short Internet Skills Scale in Slovenia

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