Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Mythologies: The Hidden Complexities of the Internet
Digital Mythologies: The Hidden Complexities of the Internet
Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
Politics as Usual
The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?
The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?
The impact of Internet use on the other side of the digital divide
Communications of the ACM - Has the Internet become indispensable?
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government
Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government
The impact of the digital divide on e-government use
Communications of the ACM - A Direct Path to Dependable Software
Information technology use among individuals in rich and poor countries: The disappearing divide
Telematics and Informatics
An index for cross-country analysis of ICT infrastructure and access
Telecommunications Policy
Taxonomy of e-readiness assessment measures
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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This paper, analyzing the Pew Internet & American Life Project's 2008 postelection survey, examines whether the demographic pattern of a digital divide differentiates significantly between general users and political users of the Internet. Internet users in this study includes six types: general Internet users, daily users, users for light political purposes, users for campaign engagement, general users of social networking sites, and social networking sites users for political connection. Testing the cross-group difference, the study found out that age, education and income make a demographic divide in general Internet usages. The divide pattern for light political activities is different from that for more politically engaged, concerned activities. Reflecting the Internet is not yet a predominant medium for politics, the probability of Internet use for campaign engagement and of social networking sites use for political purposes is not high. The digital divide in political usages of the Internet (the democratic divide) resembles the pattern in general usages.