The Internet and Other Uses of Time

Robinson, John P.; Kestnbaum, Meyer; Neustadtl, Alan; Alvarez, Anthony

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“…Income is associated with ICT access, as middle and upper class households are more likely to be able to afford computer ownership and Internet connection. Despite the focus of early reports on income differences, the effect of educational attainment on Internet use is twice than the effect attributed to income, even after the controlling for other factors in multivariate analysis (Robinson et al 2002). Our central argument here is that one possible reason for this educational effect is the likelihood that highly educated individuals hold service-industry jobs, where ICT use is common in the workplace.…”

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confidence: 79%

Ethnic Differences in Internet Access

Mesch

Talmud

2011

Information, Communication & Society

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Section: Human Capital Factorsmentioning

confidence: 79%

Ethnic Differences in Internet Access

Mesch

Talmud

2011

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Some work has been carried out in the United States, using time-diary data derived from various studies, but mainly focusing on total time spent per day rather than time of day when the systems are being used (cf. Robinson & Kestnbaum, 1999;Robinson et al, 2002aRobinson et al, , 2002bFallows, 2004). Likewise, more recent work by Rainie and Horrigan (2005) shows the role of the Internet in American life, but again only on an aggregate basis.…”

Section: Internet Usage In Australiamentioning

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The Internet and Daily Life in Australia: An Exploration

Spennemann

2006

The Information Society

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Increasingly, content for both work/education and entertainment is being delivered over the Internet. While research has focussed on the applications of the Internet, little has been done to examine how it fits into our daily lives over the run of an average day. Using data drawn from Australian services, this article provides a new methodology for charting when usage occurs, and to what extent a difference exists between various sectors of the community. It also demonstrates the suitability of human activity patterns and time usage studies to understand how society adopts new technologies.Keywords diurnal variations, human activity patterns, Internet use, time usage studies in computingThe dramatic rise in the usage and popularity of the Internet in the past decade has been fueled by its useful-

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“…One model shows the growth of email use was relatively slow for students with high initial MSN use. This finding can be explained by functional equivalency (Robinson et al 2002) since both MSN and email are used to communicate with acquaintances and can be used interchangeably. The other model demonstrates that growth of online chat was relatively slow for students with high initial email use.…”

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The development of Internet use for communication among undergraduate students: a multilevel analysis

Huang

2010

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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As few studies utilized longitudinal design to examine the development of Internet use for communication, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of gender and initial Internet use for communication on subsequent use. The study sample was 280 undergraduate students who were assessed at five time points. Hierarchical linear models were used to analyze longitudinal data regarding the development of three Internet mediums, email, instant messaging, and chat. The negative correlation between initial status and growth rate demonstrated that students using one particular medium relatively heavily tended to grow slower, and thus students with low initial use of a medium increased their use of that medium faster and thus closed the gap between students with low and high initial status. Findings about the use of a certain medium on the use of others were mixed with four models supporting neither displacement nor augmentation hypothesis and two remaining models supporting the displacement hypothesis.

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The Internet and Other Uses of Time

Cited by 45 publications

References 4 publications

Ethnic Differences in Internet Access

Ethnic Differences in Internet Access

The Internet and Daily Life in Australia: An Exploration

The development of Internet use for communication among undergraduate students: a multilevel analysis

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