Paper Info
Title
Increasing inequalities in what we do online: A longitudinal cross sectional analysis of Internet activities among the Dutch population (2010 to 2013) over gender, age, education, and income.
Abstract
We investigate types of Internet activities among a representative sample of the Dutch population from 2010 to 2013. We examined usage patterns of seven types of Internet activities (i.e., information, news, personal development, commercial transaction, social interaction, leisure, and gaming) and related these patterns with gender, age, education, and income. Activities related to news, personal development, commercial transaction, and social interaction increased in popularity. For most capital enhancing activities, men, younger people, higher educated people, and people with higher than average incomes were prominent. These observations, however, are subject to change. The Internet seems to provide increasingly more capital-enhancing opportunities for those with higher education and income, which would accordingly reinforce their already strong positions in society. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.tele.2014.09.003
Telematics and Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Digital divide,Digital inequality,Social inequality,Internet use
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0736-5853
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander van Deursen132923.35
Jan van Dijk220.37
Peter M. ten Klooster320.37