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1. Bridging the Digital Divide: How Internet Access Shapes Human Capital Development and Economic Inequality

   Jinyan Liao, Sameer Kumar, F. Furuoka · 2025 · e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities · 2,878 cites

   This study investigates the relationship between the digital gap and the development of human capital concerning economic inequality. Despite the swift progression of the digital economy, which presents novel chances for knowledge acquisition and skill development. The unequal access to the internet has deepened disparities in human capital across different socioeconomic groups, thereby contributing to broader economic inequality. The digital divide is primarily influenced by a combination of factors: access to technology, digital literacy, and financial circumstances. We examine specific regions and demographic groups to analyze the impact of digital skills on human capital development and

2. Digital divide research, achievements and shortcomings

   Jan van Dijk · 2006 · Poetics · 2,012 cites

3. The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon

   Jan van Dijk, Kenneth L. Hacker · 2003 · The Information Society · 1,621 cites

   The purpose of this article is to propose a fruitful analytical framework for data supposedly related to the concept of the so-called "digital divide." The extent and the nature of this divide depend on the kind of access defined. Considering the possession of hardware, growing divides among different categories of income, employment, education, age, and ethnicity can be proved to have existed in the 1980s and 1990s according to official American and Dutch statistics. If only by effects of saturation, these gaps will more or less close. However, it is shown that differential access of skills and usage is likely to increase. The growth of a usage gap is projected. Multivariate analyses of Dut

4. Gradations in digital inclusion: children, young people and the digital divide

   Sonia Livingstone, Ellen Helsper · 2007 · New Media & Society · 1,345 cites

   Little academic and policy attention has addressed the `digital divide' among children and young people. This article analyses findings from a national survey of UK 9—19-year-olds that reveal inequalities by age, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to their quality of access to and use of the internet. Since both the extent of use and the reasons for low- and non-use of the internet vary by age, a different explanation for the digital divide is required for children compared with adults. Looking beyond the idea of a binary divide, we propose instead a continuum of digital inclusion. Gradations in frequency of internet use (from non and low users through to weekly and daily users) are

5. The first-level digital divide shifts from inequalities in physical access to inequalities in material access

   Alexander Johannes Aloysius Maria van Deursen, Jan AGM van Dijk · 2018 · New Media & Society · 1,177 cites

   For a long time, a common opinion among policy-makers was that the digital divide problem would be solved when a country's Internet connection rate reaches saturation. However, scholars of the second-level digital divide have concluded that the divides in Internet skills and type of use continue to expand even after physical access is universal. This study-based on an online survey among a representative sample of the Dutch population-indicates that the first-level digital divide remains a problem in one of the richest and most technologically advanced countries in the world. By extending basic physical access combined with material access, the study finds that a diversity in access to devic

6. The digital divide: A review and future research agenda

   Sophie Lythreatis, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar · 2021 · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 989 cites

7. eHealth Literacy: Extending the Digital Divide to the Realm of Health Information

   Efrat Neter, Esther Brainin · 2012 · Journal of Medical Internet Research · 917 cites

   BACKGROUND: eHealth literacy is defined as the ability of people to use emerging information and communications technologies to improve or enable health and health care. OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to explore whether literacy disparities are diminished or enhanced in the search for health information on the Internet. The study focused on (1) traditional digital divide variables, such as sociodemographic characteristics, digital access, and digital literacy, (2) information search processes, and (3) the outcomes of Internet use for health information purposes. METHODS: We used a countrywide representative random-digital-dial telephone household survey of the Israeli adult population

8. Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills

   Eszter Hargittai · 2007 · Defence Science Journal · 842 cites

   Much of the existing literature on the digital divide – the differences between the haves and have nots regarding access to the Internet – limits its scope to a binary classification of technology use by only considering whether someone does or does not use the Internet. To remedy this shortcoming, in this paper I look at the differences in people’s online skills. In order to measure people’s online ability, I assigned search tasks to a random sample of Internet users from a suburban county. Findings suggest that people search for content in a myriad of ways and there is a large variance in whether people are able to find various types of content on the Web and how long they take to complete