Breaking the walls of social exclusion of women rural by means of ICTs: The case of ‘digital divides’ in Galician

Novo-Corti, Isabel; Varela-Candamio, Laura; García-Álvarez, María Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.06.017

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“…online communities and social media) and artefacts (digital components, applications or media content) mean that spatial and temporal boundaries of entrepreneurial activities, when and where activities are carried out, are significantly less constrained and product and service opportunities are constantly evolving (Namsibian, 2016). In addition, the Internet attributes of convenience, ease of use, large audience reach, anonymity and interactivity (Case, 2016;Lin et al, 2015;Walther and Boyd, 2002) mean that digital entrepreneurship offers significant potential for those groups who face barriers to engagement in bricks-and-mortar entrepreneurship (Novo-Corti et al, 2014: Shirazi, 2012. Accordingly, digital entrepreneurship is posited to facilitate the engagement of marginalised groups, with one such group being women, as online platforms develop and implement their own social and contractual frameworks that are often independent of local restrictions (Parker et al, 2016;Martin and Wright, 2005).…”

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“To boldly go where no [man] has gone before” - Institutional voids and the development of women's digital entrepreneurship

McAdam

Crowley

Harrison

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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This paper examines the emergence of digital entrepreneurship in the context of emerging economies. Given that these economies generally lack a well-developed institutional framework, we draw on the concept of institutional voids as our theoretical lens. We argue that digital entrepreneurship facilitates the navigation and bridging of socio-cultural institutional voids but also provides opportunities for entrepreneurs to directly and indirectly alter the existing institutional context. We illustrate these arguments by drawing upon six biographical narrations of female digital entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia. Accordingly, through our development of a multi-level model, we make explicit the two-way causal interaction between entrepreneurial action, institution altering behaviour and the social and cultural context, thus providing a framework for future research.

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“To boldly go where no [man] has gone before” - Institutional voids and the development of women's digital entrepreneurship

McAdam

Crowley

Harrison

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

126

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“…This is especially true for rapidly penetrating consumer technologies (e.g. [29,35]). Such notions lead us to expect that the differences in the degree of social media use among population groups have diminished over the past decade.…”

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Changing patterns of social media use? A population-level study of Finland

Koiranen

Keipi

Koivula

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Univ Access Inf Soc

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This article examines the changing patterns of Finnish social media use during the years 2008-2016. This is the first temporal look at changes in Finnish social media use with representative population-level data. We assess how social media use has evolved between socio-economic and demographic groups in advanced information societies, with a focus on Finland. We also look at how demographic factors associate with use purposes of social media. The target of empirical analysis is on social media use and use purposes by gender, age, education level and area of residence. The data come from nationally representative and temporally comparable surveys focusing on adult populations. Findings show that the effect of sociodemographic factors on overall use and different use purposes of social media persists. Furthermore, the results seem to show a diminishing of the socializing impact of social media; on the other hand, individual, commercial and goal-oriented use practices seem to have become a major focus of social media use.

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“…Novo-Corti, Varela-Candamio, & García-Álvarez [42] maintain that simply promoting the access to digital technologies is a simple solution to overcome the digital divide. Although, the study was targeted towards a particular region, the claim is question-able because the digital divide has been proved as a complex phenomenon and a variety of factors are responsible for the di-vide other than just access.…”

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A Visual Uptake on the Digital Divide

Mubarak

Suomi

2015

Open and Big Data Management and Innovation

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Factors found to influence the adoption of ICT have been explored in several studies. However, few writers have been able to produce any systematic research into the digital divide. Although, differences of opinion still exist, a growing body of literature has established that income and education are positively related to digitalization patterns. This research attempts to deepen the understanding of the present ambiguous relationship between socio-economic indicators and the ICT. This account tested the links between socio-economic variables (GDP per capita, GINI index, World Bank Education Statistics, and Transparency International's corruption perception index) and ICT diffusion across developed and developing countries. Positive correlations were found for income and ICT, education and ICT. A negative correlation was found between corruption and ICT adoption. The paper discusses implication of these findings and suggests future courses of actions for policy makers. Proceeding from the findings of this paper, this research suggests there is an urgent need to address the digital divide by initiating impactful efforts to reduce it.

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Breaking the walls of social exclusion of women rural by means of ICTs: The case of ‘digital divides’ in Galician

Cited by 57 publications

References 11 publications

“To boldly go where no [man] has gone before” - Institutional voids and the development of women's digital entrepreneurship

“To boldly go where no [man] has gone before” - Institutional voids and the development of women's digital entrepreneurship

Changing patterns of social media use? A population-level study of Finland

A Visual Uptake on the Digital Divide

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