Social support for digital inclusion of women in South African townships

Keating, Carlynn; Audenhove, Leo Van; Craffert, Leona

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2022.101893

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“…One of the implications of this study is that digital-inclusion projects can benefit from the social ties embedded in communities. Communities should play active roles in their projects; for example, rather than waiting for help and training from the outside, communities can enlist digitally competent community members to impart digital skills [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Use of Older People from the Perspective of Peer Effects

Shi,

Zhang,

Wang

2023

Sustainability

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The use of the Internet by older adults will contribute to the sustainable development of society. Existing studies have extensively investigated the influencing factors that affect older people’s use of the Internet, but ignored the behaviors of the people around them. Using data from China Family Panel Studies, we investigated the influence of peer effects on the Internet use of older people. It was found that, the stronger that peer effects are, the higher the level of Internet use among older adults. This conclusion still holds after a robustness test. The peer effects are more obvious in rural areas, due to closer community interaction. In addition, this study proves that peer effects promote Internet use by increasing the perceived importance of the Internet through mediation tests. The findings highlight the positive effects of social interaction on the Internet among older people, which is conducive to the improvement of policy practice.

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“…Application design also increases the difficulty of use by ignoring the needs of older adults [19]. Keating points out that the fear caused by not knowing what to do will hinder Internet access and use [20]. Chen and Chan have argued that high levels of self-efficacy and low levels of anxiety can increase the use of the Internet [21].…”

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Use of Older People from the Perspective of Peer Effects

Shi,

Zhang,

Wang

2023

Sustainability

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“…This was made explicit in a qualitative study from South Africa on women's use of ICT, in which one respondent expressed a view that computers are for businesses and schools. 17 Thus, digital inclusion is not merely about access and infrastructure, but also a matter of educating individuals to use ICT.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Digital inclusion: A mixed-method study of user behavior and content on Twitter

Salzmann-Erikson

2023

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Objective This study is the first to explore user behavior and characterize the content shared about digital inclusion on Twitter. Methods This mixed-methods research consists of 14,000 tweets featuring the hashtag “#digitalinclusion,” posted on Twitter over 15 months. A machine learning technique, latent Dirichlet allocation, was utilized to discover abstract topics within the tweets statistically. The algorithm identified important keywords and text associated with each topic by modeling the underlying word co-occurrence patterns in the dataset. A manual qualitative content analysis was applied to the qualitative data (1000 tweets). Results Tweets containing #digitalinclusion are driven by four motives: 1) warning against the risks of digital exclusion; 2) tweets that promote actions to increase digital inclusion; 3) tweets that call for others to take action to improve digitalization; and 4) tweets that are neutral but fuel the debate by being active. Quantitative analysis revealed that users discussing digital inclusion come from various continents, including the USA, Europe, Africa, and Asia. There were 3931 unique user accounts, with individuals posting between one and 368 tweets. Approximately half of the tweets contained some embedded media. Conclusion The study concludes that digital inclusion is a subject that engages Twitter users worldwide. Tweets that were associated with community and local initiatives and sustainable development had the highest engagement in terms of the number of retweets and likes. The interpretation is that digital inclusion is crucial for achieving equity in living conditions and enhancing access to health information and services. While initiatives to increase digital inclusion are underway, Twitter users call for more efforts to prevent growing digital exclusion. Twitter, as a social media platform, is valuable for studying the motivations that drive digital inclusion and help counter digital exclusion.

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Social support for digital inclusion of women in South African townships

Cited by 2 publications

References 22 publications

Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Use of Older People from the Perspective of Peer Effects

Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Use of Older People from the Perspective of Peer Effects

Digital inclusion: A mixed-method study of user behavior and content on Twitter

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