TY - GEN
T1 - A study on the effect of smartphones on the digital divide
AU - Sung, Wookjoon
PY - 2015/5/27
Y1 - 2015/5/27
N2 - This study aims at conducting an empirical study of the digital divide hypothesis in Korea where the majority of people own smart phones. The research question is as follows: "How does the proliferation of smartphones have an impact on the digital divide by demographic factors such as gender, age, education, income?" The dependent variable is the digital skill/usage access. The independent variables are gender, age, income, education and employment. Controlled variables include the desktop computer, laptop computer, Internet connection, and cellular phone. Smartphones are used as a moderating variable. As the result, the use of the smartphone reduced the existing digital divide by age, education, occupation, income. Policies associated with the digital gaps need to be propelled in the direction to raise the utilization and increase the accessibility of the smartphone.
AB - This study aims at conducting an empirical study of the digital divide hypothesis in Korea where the majority of people own smart phones. The research question is as follows: "How does the proliferation of smartphones have an impact on the digital divide by demographic factors such as gender, age, education, income?" The dependent variable is the digital skill/usage access. The independent variables are gender, age, income, education and employment. Controlled variables include the desktop computer, laptop computer, Internet connection, and cellular phone. Smartphones are used as a moderating variable. As the result, the use of the smartphone reduced the existing digital divide by age, education, occupation, income. Policies associated with the digital gaps need to be propelled in the direction to raise the utilization and increase the accessibility of the smartphone.
KW - Digital divide
KW - Digital literacy
KW - Information gap
KW - Korea Media Penal Survey
KW - Smart divide
KW - Smartphone
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84957690824&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2757401.2757427
DO - 10.1145/2757401.2757427
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957690824
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 276
EP - 282
BT - dg.o 2015 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
A2 - Zhang, Jing
A2 - Kim, Yushim
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2015
Y2 - 27 May 2015 through 30 May 2015
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