TY - GEN
T1 - Social facilitators and inhibitors to online fluency
AU - Haythornthwaite, Caroline
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Studies of Internet use continue to show a gap between those with and without access to the Internet and its resources. However, recent work indicates that this is not a straightforward divide about access; instead there are many variants of access, use, and presence online. This paper examines these variants, bringing together primarily US and European studies on the digital divide to identify social facilitators and inhibitors to online use that can inform policy and practice. This paper reviews research on who is and is not online, where access is gained, and what promotes or inhibits use of the Internet. This leads to identification of a number of interrelated social and technical factors that underlie access differences, including technical and social infrastructures, social networks, and content.
AB - Studies of Internet use continue to show a gap between those with and without access to the Internet and its resources. However, recent work indicates that this is not a straightforward divide about access; instead there are many variants of access, use, and presence online. This paper examines these variants, bringing together primarily US and European studies on the digital divide to identify social facilitators and inhibitors to online use that can inform policy and practice. This paper reviews research on who is and is not online, where access is gained, and what promotes or inhibits use of the Internet. This leads to identification of a number of interrelated social and technical factors that underlie access differences, including technical and social infrastructures, social networks, and content.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2007.488
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2007.488
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39749195457
SN - 0769527558
SN - 9780769527550
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
T2 - 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
Y2 - 3 January 2007 through 6 January 2007
ER -