Can people with disabilities use the mobile Internet if they want to?

Wookjoon Sung; Seunghwan Kim

doi:10.1145/3396956.3396986

Can people with disabilities use the mobile Internet if they want to?

Wookjoon Sung
, Seunghwan Kim

Dept. of AI and Public Policy

Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SNUST)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of motivation on the mobile Internet use and mediating effects of digital literacy in people with disabilities through structural equation modeling based on uses and gratifications approach. Multi-group analysis was also used to explore whether differences exist between groups classified by types of disability. The data were taken from the 2018 Digital Information Divide Survey conducted by the National Information Society Agency (NIA) in South Korea. As a result, it was found that the motivation of people with disabilities has a little or no direct effect on the mobile Internet use. However, the mediating effect of digital literacy promotes the use of the mobile Internet. In particular, differences in structural models and some path coefficients also appeared according to the type of disability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
Subtitle of host publication	Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020
Editors	Seok-Jin Eom, Jooho Lee
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	147-154
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450387910
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3396956.3396986
State	Published - 15 Jun 2020
Event	21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 15 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	15/06/20 → 19/06/20

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

Digital divide
Digital literacy
Mobile Internet use
People with disabilities

Access to Document

10.1145/3396956.3396986

Cite this

Sung, W., & Kim, S. (2020). Can people with disabilities use the mobile Internet if they want to? In S.-J. Eom, & J. Lee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020 (pp. 147-154). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396956.3396986

Sung, Wookjoon ; Kim, Seunghwan. / Can people with disabilities use the mobile Internet if they want to?. Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020. editor / Seok-Jin Eom ; Jooho Lee. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. pp. 147-154 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Sung, W & Kim, S 2020, Can people with disabilities use the mobile Internet if they want to? in S-J Eom & J Lee (eds), Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 147-154, 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 15/06/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3396956.3396986

Can people with disabilities use the mobile Internet if they want to? / Sung, Wookjoon; Kim, Seunghwan.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society, DGO 2020. ed. / Seok-Jin Eom; Jooho Lee. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 147-154 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review