The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital Divides in America

Chen, Wenhong

doi:10.1080/01972243.2012.739265

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“…Social capital has been posited to provide material access to the internet as well as access to resources that are skills required to navigate the web and its intricacies (Chen 2013). Sundararajan (2016) describes social capital in the context of collaborative consumption as a signal of an individual's trustworthiness due to an extended network of social ties and also as a sign of reliability of an individual's commitment to an interaction.…”

Section: Economic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social Capital: Social capital, often an indicator of social connectedness of communities and individuals has been found to positively influence internet use among U.S. individuals (Chen 2013) and U.S. states . Social capital has been posited to provide material access to the internet as well as access to resources that are skills required to navigate the web and its intricacies (Chen 2013).…”

Section: Economic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Shared Accommodations: The Case of Airbnb in Los Angeles, California

Sarkar

Koohikamali

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2017

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:In recent years, disruptive innovation by peer-to-peer platforms in a variety of industries, notably transportation and hospitality have altered the way individuals consume everyday essential services. With growth in sharing economy platforms such as Uber for ridesharing and Airbnb for short-term accommodations, interest in examining spatiotemporal patterns of participation in the sharing economy by suppliers and consumers is increasing. This research is motivated by key questions: who are the sharing economy workers, where are they located, and does their location influence their participation in the sharing economy? This paper is the first systematic effort to analyze spatiotemporal patterns of participation by hosts in the shared accommodation-based economy. Using three different kinds of shared accommodations listed in a 3-year period in the popular short-term accommodation platform, Airbnb, we examine spatiotemporal dimensions of host participation in a major U.S. market, Los Angeles CA. The paper also develops a conceptual model by positing associations of demographic, socioeconomic, occupational, and social capital attributes of hosts, along with their attitudes toward trust and greener consumption with hosts' participation in a shared accommodation market. Results confirm host participation to be influenced by young dependency ratio, the potential of supplemental income, as well as the sustainability potential of collaborative consumption, along with finance, insurance, and real estate occupation, but not so much by trust for our overall study area. These results add new insights to limited prior knowledge about the sharing economy worker and have policy implications.

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Section: Economic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Economic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Shared Accommodations: The Case of Airbnb in Los Angeles, California

Sarkar

Koohikamali

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2017

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…In some instances, researchers have employed surveys to collect data on ICT access [4]. However, most of these previous studies have examined the U.S. digital divide through the lens of technology access, or more precisely material access to ICTs.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Over the years, a number of studies [1,2,4,21,27] have examined various aspects of ICT adoption, diffusion, and access. A number of these studies have focused on examining socioeconomic influences on adoption and access for a particular form of ICT, for example, the internet [1,4,28], broadband [8,22], while a few [2,20] have focused on computer adoption in the household along with an array of ICT access.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(3) What are the associations of socio-economic, demographic, affordability, innovation, social capital, and societal openness factors with internet usage in the U.S. states? (4) What are the policy implications of such associations? The remainder of this paper is organized into sections on literature review of internet use, the study's conceptual model of internet use, methodology and data, findings on geographic disparities and socio economic influences on internet usage, implications of findings, and conclusions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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