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Exploring the Digital Divide: Internet Connectedness and Age
Abstract
The existence of a digital divide between old and young Americans has been well documented. It is usually defined as access or lack of access to the Internet. This study adds context to the understanding of the digital divide by demonstrating differenes in Internet connectedness, a multidimensional concept that includes consideration of the scope and intensity of the relationship that people develop with the Internet. Age is shown to be significantly associated not just with access, but with a tendency to pursue a more narrow range of personal goals online and with a pattern of connecting to the Internet from a smaller range of places. Nonetheless, older respondents evaluate the Internet to be as central to their lives as younger people do. Some support is offered for the idea that the digital divide is not merely a generational effect.
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Metadata
- Authors
- LOGES, W. E., & JUNG, J.-Y.
- Venue
- Communication Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-08
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 536-562
- ISSN
- 0093-6502 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3810
- OpenAlex
- W2013980900
- Cited by
- 414
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 20.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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