Empirical Study on Impact of New In-formation Communication Technology on Digital Divides:Beijing and Shanghai

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10.2991/icibet.2013.247How to use a DOI?

Abstract

With the diffusion of mobile devices and Internet, the acquisition of information becomes more convenient and easily ac-cessible to different walks of life. As such, the digital divide has evolved from une-qual access to Internet to deeper level re-flecting the gap of network knowledge and skills. In this article, the authors focus on the exploring of the influence of new information and communication technol-ogy (ICT) on deep digital divide of differ-ent social classes, collecting various sam-ples from Beijing and Shanghai, and con-ducting an empirical research on the deep digital divide in these regions. Question-naires and interviews are conducted on different social classes in order to retrieve related information and understand the effort of applying related policies and subsequences of mitigating digital divide. By applying dynamic statistical analysis on feedback data, related mechanism, modes as well as general principles re-flecting the influence of new information and communication technology on deep digital divide are revealed in this study.

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AU  - Xiaobin Lu
AU  - Xi Meng
AU  - Jing Guo
AU  - Wei Huang
PY  - 2013/03
DA  - 2013/03
TI  - Empirical Study on Impact of New In-formation Communication Technology on Digital Divides:Beijing and Shanghai
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1132
EP  - 1139
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icibet.2013.247
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