Calderon, Daniele, Ragnedda, Massimo and Ruiu, Maria (2022) Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-economic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet. European Journal of Communication, 37 (3). pp. 284-311. ISSN 0267-3231
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Abstract
This article investigates the entanglement between socio-economic and technological factors in conditioning people's patterns of Internet use. We analysed the influence of sociodemographic and techno-social aspects in conditioning the distinctive digital practices developed by Internet users. By using a representative sample of UK users and different methods of analysis, such as factor analysis, K-means cluster analysis and logit analysis, this study shows how techno-social variables have a stronger effect than socio-economic variables in explaining the advanced use of the Internet.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: The author(s) received financial support for the research from British Academy SRG18R1\180983. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Digital divide, digital inequalities, digital practices, Internet related, Internet uses |
| Subjects: | J900 Others in Technology L900 Others in Social studies P900 Others in Mass Communications and Documentation |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Arts Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | John Coen |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2021 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2022 09:16 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/47047 |
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