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For what it's worth: digital inequalities, attitudes and a typology of internet (non-)users

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This paper addresses limitations of previous digital inequality research through a systematic analysis of factors that distinguish Internet non-users from low users of the Internet, and in turn low users from regular and broad Internet users. In addition to socio-demographic characteristics, we examine the role of attitudes toward technologies and the Internet in gradations of Internet (non)use. Results indicate that apart from socio-demographic characteristics attitudes play a strong role in determining who is online and offline, and also how much and how broadly Internet users engage with these technologies.

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    WebSci '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science
    June 2014
    318 pages
    ISBN:9781450326223
    DOI:10.1145/2615569
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    1. attitudes.
    2. digital inequalities
    3. low use
    4. non-use
    5. user typologies

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