Explaining the Global Digital Divide: Economic, Political and Sociological Drivers of Cross-National Internet Use

Guillén, Mauro F.; Suárez, Sandra L.

doi:10.1353/sof.2006.0015

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“…In particular, Milner argued that regime type plays an important role in this with democracies adopting the Internet at a much faster pace than autocracies. Milner's findings are consistent with Guillen and Suarez's study Guillén and Suárez, 2005 that showed the democracy score of the country was a significant predictor of the country's number of Internet users and hosts. Following the so-called Arab Spring political and social uprisings in some Middle Eastern and North African countries, several studies emphasized the role of the Internet and digital communication technologies in facilitating grass roots political movements Howard and Hussain, 2011;Seo and Thorson, 2012.…”

Section: Regime Type and Internet Adoptionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Whether or how forms of political institutions, regime type, influence the government's Internet adoption or whether the government's Internet adoption affects its democratic process has been a topic of great interest in recent years Guillén and Suárez, 2005;Seo and Thorson, 2012;Kedzie, 1997;Milner, 2006;Norris, 2001;Rød and Weidmann, 2015. Empirical and theoretical studies in this area have presented somewhat conflicting arguments.…”

Section: Regime Type and Internet Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Past studies generally measure Internet adoption using variables such as the number of Internet users (normalized by population) in a country or the number of Internet hosts (devices directly connected to the Internet) in a country Milner, 2006;Rød and Weidmann, 2015;Guillén and Suárez, 2005. Independent variables considered have included some combination of regime type, level of economic well-being, and population measures.…”

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“…In particular, we aim to provide insight into whether and how a country's regime type is associated with the country's connections with other countries via the Internet (global level). While previous studies examined the influence of regime type on technology adoption or vice versaGuillén and Suárez, 2005;Seo and Thorson, 2012;Kedzie, 1997;Milner, 2006;Norris, 2001;Rød and Weidmann, 2015, little research has examined the topic at both country and global levels. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing relevant data from 2002 to 2011 using network analysis and panel regression.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Network Approach to Regime Type and Global Internet Connectedness

Seo

Thorson

2016

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

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We explore the relationship between regime type and country access to the Internet at both domestic and global levels by conducting longitudinal analyses of economic, population, and Internet data between 2002 and 2011. In particular, we investigate how a country's position in the global Internet network is associated with the country's type of political institution while attempting to take into account its economic growth and population (so-called scale effects). Our analysis shows that liberal democracies dominated the global Internet network both in 2002 and in 2011, followed by polyarchies and electoral democracies. Finally, our panel regression and network analyses suggest that it is important to consider network characteristics in investigating whether and how a country's regime type influences the country's Internet adoption. We discuss implications of these and other findings for idea flows and economic developments.

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Thorson

2016

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

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“…In another work published in 2006, Guillen and Suarez considered the digital divide regarding telecommunication and showed the relation between internet accessing cost and phone usage and GDP so as covering 118 countries. (Guillen & Suarez, 2006). Similarly, there are also works showing the relation between telecommunication, infrastructure, economic factors, literacy rate, personal computer usage rate, competition and digital divide (Oyelaran-Oyeyinka & Lal, 2005) .…”

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The Role of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investments on the Relation between Digital Divide and Economic Growth: A Structural Equation Model

Civelek¹,

Çemberci²,

Uca³

2016

eas.soc

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The digital divide is the non-distribution of technologic infrastructure use equiponderant within the society and an inequality in proportion to the tendency to technological use within the social categories. There is a significant correlation between the dissemination of information to the society and technology. Developments in the information and communication technologies affect the economic growth of countries. The possibility of accessing to the information strengthens the individual and this positively affects the entrepreneurship capacity of individual in the new fit system which the knowledge becomes the most important factor of production. This study tests the model which shows the relation between digital divide, economic growth, and entrepreneurship, patent granted and foreign direct investment. Internet penetration (IP) was used as the measurement criterion of digital divide. The hypotheses, suggested in the study, were tested through the method of structural equation model, and it was found that all of the hypotheses within the relation range, offered in the study model, were statistically significant. ÖZET Dijital bölünme, teknolojik altyapının kullanımının toplum içerisinde eşit ağırlıklı ola-rak yayılmaması ve toplum kesimleri arasında teknoloji kullanımına yatkınlık oranındaki eşitsizliktir. Bilginin topluma yayılması ile teknoloji arasında önemli bir ilişki vardır. Bilgi ve 120

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Digital Divide

Drori¹

2012

The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization

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The phenomenal global diffusion of digital technology, whose rate surpassed the spread of any other technology in human history, has resulted in staggering global gaps in access to, and use of, this newest of social resources. These gaps, which mark the uneven distribution of information and communication technology (ICT) both internationally and intranationally worldwide, came to be known as the “global digital divide.” Internationally, digital divides differentiated between developed and developing nations, setting them on diverging trajectories of social development and global integration. In addition, digital divides differentiated among groups within countries, setting further apart rich from poor, educated from illiterate, and residents of urban areas from rural residents. The confluence of such international and intranational digital divides exacerbates social inequalities and thus has done little to offset the great advances in economic prosperity and integration and the great spread of information that ICT enable. With that, the global digital divide is widening over time, dampening hopes that ICT will serve as a liberation technology to advance democracy and as a leapfrogging technology to advance social development.

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Explaining the Global Digital Divide: Economic, Political and Sociological Drivers of Cross-National Internet Use

Cited by 312 publications

References 98 publications

Network Approach to Regime Type and Global Internet Connectedness

Network Approach to Regime Type and Global Internet Connectedness

The Role of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investments on the Relation between Digital Divide and Economic Growth: A Structural Equation Model

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