The digital divide versus the ‘digital delay’: Implications from a forecasting model of online news adoption and use

Nguyen, An

doi:10.1386/macp.8.2-3.251_1

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“…These inequalities also remain relevant for more differentiated types of internet usage. This finding is in line with the constant upgrade culture of the internet (Lister, 2009;Nguyen, 2012): Although traditionally disadvantaged societal groups are increasingly moving online, the advantaged majority of an information society is adopting more differentiated types of internet usage and rapidly developing their internet skills: a basic mechanism is that acquiring new knowledge is proportional to already acquired knowledge. Disadvantaged groups therefore keep falling behind and being asked to play catch-up.…”

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confidence: 62%

It’s still a thing: digital inequalities and their evolution in the information society

Festic¹,

Büchi²,

Latzer³

2021

SCM

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Internet diffusion has prompted research into differences in internet access, use and consequences. Exploiting the full potential of the ongoing digital transformation in all spheres of life-a proclaimed goal of governments and international organizations-requires ensuring equal opportunities and supporting disadvantaged individuals in their internet use. Using representative, population-level survey data from Switzerland spanning nearly a decade (2011-2019; Ntotal = 5,581), multiple multivariate regression analyses tested the effects of demographic and internet-use related variables on access (general and mobile), on internet skills and on different types of use (information, entertainment, commercial transactions and communication). Results indicated that despite high access rates (92% in 2019), considerable usage inequalities persist in the Swiss information society: in particular, we found an increasing marginalization of older individuals regarding the adoption of the internet and revealed the importance of internet skills, experience and mobile internet use for adopting differentiated types of use. The extreme differences between the highly connected majority and an increasingly marginalized minority raise concerns about the latter group’s opportunities for personal, social and economic benefits in an information society. This study provides unique results on current digital inequalities and their evolution which are crucial for assessing the success, suitability and legitimacy of digitization policies.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 62%

It’s still a thing: digital inequalities and their evolution in the information society

Festic¹,

Büchi²,

Latzer³

2021

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“…By emphasizing concerns about news quality and revenue, much of the discourse on innovation ignores the fact that increasing socioeconomic inequalities in news production, circulation, and target audiences are structural problems inherent to digital media (Hindman, 2009;Nguyen, 2012;Schradie, 2011;Tran, 2013). As digital advertising has made pursuing niche-oriented, generally wealthier audiences more lucrative than targeting mass audiences, news funded by philanthropic sources has followed suit by pursuing upscale audiences more likely to be deemed high-quality news consumers and to donate (Benson, 2016;Turow, 2012;Turow and Draper, 2014).…”

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Post-industrial fog: Reconsidering innovation in visions of journalism’s future

Creech

Nadler

2017

Journalism

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As US news organizations have faced twin crises in funding and authority in recent years, innovation has become a key concept and ideal driving many interventions aimed at saving journalism. Often, ahistorically and uncritically deployed notions of innovation elide questions of digital journalism’s democratic aspirations in favor of market-oriented solutions. To critically examine the discourse around innovation, this article interrogates documents produced by think tanks and non-profit institutes researching the future of journalism: the Knight Foundation, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, Harvard’s Nieman Foundation, and the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, among others. A post-industrial vision for journalism emerges with an overriding and celebratory focus on innovation. We argue that this discourse marginalizes normative concerns about journalism’s democratic purpose and rests on an entrepreneurial logic that seeks to dictate digital journalism’s broader public virtues.

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“…At the same time, this entails a failure of the previous and existing digital strategies and the policies of this and previous Governments. Nevertheless, the question remains whether digital inclusion itself does not in fact create a new social gap as to inequality, which will be a key problem or challenge as regards the future challenge of ensuring universal internet availability and its socioeconomic imapct (Nguyen, 2012). Therefore, the next step for Slovenia is to initiate a nationwide campaign to increase digital skills, including a change in formal education programmes from primary school onwards, and digital lifelong learning initiatives.…”

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A Model of Digital Inequality in the Knowledge Society: The Case of Slovenia

Dečman¹

2017

CEPAR

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The knowledge society defines information technology (IT) as the crucial factor in accessing knowledge today. At the same time, knowledge itself represents the precondition for using technology. This paradox is linked with the concept of digital inequality, which examines the difference between people in society and includes various levels, such as physical access to technology, possession of the skills to use it, social and cultural influences, and relations between and within these levels. Although the phenomenon of digital inequality is at least two decades old, it has an important role even today. The following paper discusses the notion of digital inequality and links it to information technology access and use in the society. Using the results of 1568 questionnaires completed by a representative sample of Slovenian citizens in 2016, it develops a five-level model that indicates the factors influencing the reasons for the inequalities. The results show that the survey misses the top two levels of the model, but indicate that gender differences are diminishing while income differences significantly influence internet availability, digital skills, and IT use. The results suggest changes in policies that countries should implement to achieve digital inclusion for everyone and consequently the highest possible use of IT and the benefits for society that come with it.

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The digital divide versus the ‘digital delay’: Implications from a forecasting model of online news adoption and use

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

It’s still a thing: digital inequalities and their evolution in the information society

It’s still a thing: digital inequalities and their evolution in the information society

Post-industrial fog: Reconsidering innovation in visions of journalism’s future

A Model of Digital Inequality in the Knowledge Society: The Case of Slovenia

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