Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-economic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet

This article investigates the entanglement between socio-economic and technological factors in conditioning people’s patterns of Internet use. We analysed the influence of sociodemographic and techno-social aspects in conditioning the distinctive digital practices developed by Internet users. By usi...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Ragnedda, Massimo, Ruiu, Maria Laura, Calderón Gómez, Daniel
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/91649
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91649
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Digital divide
Digital inequalities
Digital practices
Internet related
Internet uses
Sociología
6307.07 Tecnología y Cambio Social
Descrição
Resumo:This article investigates the entanglement between socio-economic and technological factors in conditioning people’s patterns of Internet use. We analysed the influence of sociodemographic and techno-social aspects in conditioning the distinctive digital practices developed by Internet users. By using a representative sample of UK users and different methods of analysis, such as factor analysis, K-means cluster analysis and logit analysis, this study shows how techno-social variables have a stronger effect than socio-economic variables in explaining the advanced use of the Internet.