Cyberspace: Connected or Segregated? Examining Virtual Segregation among Hong Kong Internet Users

Li, Fei; Wang, Donggen

doi:10.1068/b39010

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“…Climate risk perception in this paper refers to a kind of concern and prediction of climate risk events. In the network era, the Internet has changed the way the public obtains and transmits information, especially the use of big data technology has increased dramatically, and the public is able to obtain all kinds of information from the Internet more actively, anytime and anywhere (F. Li & Wang, 2014). The search behavior of residents using internet search engines for certain events or concepts can then be used to measure the level of concern for certain climate risk phenomena and certain concepts.…”

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Haze Pollution, Climate Risk Perception and Demand for Commercial Health Insurance

Li,

Tian

2024

Sage Open

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Haze pollution not only affects the quality of economic growth and the image of the government, but also seriously affects public health. With the improvement of climate risk perception, the public is actively seeking all kinds of risk management measures to combat the hazards of haze pollution. The study of the relationship between haze pollution, climate risk perception and the development of commercial health insurance is of great significance to the formulation of haze control policies and the improvement of social security system. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between haze pollution, climate risk perception and commercial health insurance demand by establishing static and dynamic models based on panel data from 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2022. Also, the spatial spillover effects of haze pollution in different regions on the development of commercial health insurance in other regions are investigated by establishing a spatial Durbin model. It is found that (1) haze pollution has a lagged positive effect on the demand for commercial health insurance; (2) haze pollution has a significant spatial spillover effect on the development of commercial health insurance; (3) this study used Python technology to construct a climate risk perception index, and found that the moderating effect of the residents’ perception of climate risk existed significantly, and that the residents might take other measures to manage the risk in the short term, but in the long term, the climate risk perception showed a positive correlation with the level of education. This paper provides implications for government departments and social media to strengthen education and publicity, improve residents’ awareness of risk diversification, and deepen the concept of commercial health protection.

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Section: Fixed Effects Regression Results Analysismentioning

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Haze Pollution, Climate Risk Perception and Demand for Commercial Health Insurance

Li,

Tian

2024

Sage Open

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“…Kiuru and Inkinen, 2019). The use of digital technologies is embedded in social, political, cultural and economic circumstances (Zook, 2006; Graham, 2013), and thus, “people may be stratified and segregated in cyberspace in similar ways to the physical world” (Li and Wang, 2014, p. 323). Therefore, digital technologies cannot flatten the “structural and social forces of exclusion and inequality” but can potentially be a “powerful impetus behind positive economic and social change” (Graham, 2011, p. 223; cf.…”

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Bourdieusian e-capital perspective enhancing digital capital discussion in the realm of third level digital divide

Merisalo

Makkonen

2022

ITP

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to create a research framework to scrutinize how individuals' digital technology use produces tangible and intangible outcomes in online (digital) and offline realms.Design/methodology/approachThe paper applies the Bourdieusian e-capital perspective to create a theory-based framework. The framework was used to guide a survey design to explore women's “social media-assisted reuse” at the micro-scale in Helsinki, Finland.FindingsThe paper argues that a new form of capital emerges when individuals utilize digital technologies in correspondence to their goals to gain added value that would be impossible or significantly more arduous to gain without the digital realm. The survey indicates that the respondents utilize the digital space – set objectives and gain capital-related outcomes – in correspondence to their differing social, economic and cultural positions and related resources in- and outside of the digital realm.Practical implicationsIf digital spaces – due to social inequality and underlying power structures – become increasingly stratified, there will be significant impacts on how individuals from differing backgrounds gain accumulated forms of capital through the digital realm. The question is of great importance for battling inequality.Originality/valueThe paper enhances and synthesizes recent discussions on different forms of capital and outcomes of the use of digital technologies and presents a combined “e-capital–digital divide” framework that offers a more complete agenda for investigating the finely nuanced links between the inputs, outputs and outcomes of digital technology use.

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“…Moreover, different social groups may have distinct preferences for certain online platforms and services for access to information and social activities (Ucar et al, 2021). Therefore, it rises a hot concern about whether people experience social inequalities and processes similar to that in physical spaces (Li & Wang, 2014). Furthermore, how spatial segregation and virtual segmentation influence (e.g., reinforce or offset) each other has not been well understood.…”

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Towards a new paradigm for segregation measurement in an age of big data

Yue

Gao

et al. 2022

Urban Info

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Recent theoretical and methodological advances in activity space and big data provide new opportunities to study socio-spatial segregation. This review first provides an overview of the literature in terms of measurements, spatial patterns, underlying causes, and social consequences of spatial segregation. These studies are mainly place-centred and static, ignoring the segregation experience across various activity spaces due to the dynamism of movements. In response to this challenge, we highlight the work in progress toward a new paradigm for segregation studies. Specifically, this review presents how and the extent to which activity space methods can advance segregation research from a people-based perspective. It explains the requirements of mobility-based methods for quantifying the dynamics of segregation due to high movement within the urban context. It then discusses and illustrates a dynamic and multi-dimensional framework to show how big data can enhance understanding segregation by capturing individuals’ spatio-temporal behaviours. The review closes with new directions and challenges for segregation research using big data.

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Cyberspace: Connected or Segregated? Examining Virtual Segregation among Hong Kong Internet Users

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Haze Pollution, Climate Risk Perception and Demand for Commercial Health Insurance

Haze Pollution, Climate Risk Perception and Demand for Commercial Health Insurance

Bourdieusian e-capital perspective enhancing digital capital discussion in the realm of third level digital divide

Towards a new paradigm for segregation measurement in an age of big data

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