TY - JOUR
T1 - Unraveling Different Barriers to Internet Use
T2 - Urban Residents and Neighborhood Effects
AU - Mossberger, Karen
AU - Tolbert, Caroline J.
AU - Bowen, Daniel
AU - Jimenez, Benedict
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors are grateful to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for funding this research.
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - While current federal programs for broadband have invested heavily in rural infrastructure, significant disparities in Internet use remain in urban areas, where broadband networks are available. The success of the national broadband plan and federal policy require understanding barriers to Internet adoption, including persistent inequalities in urban areas. Analysis of a random sample telephone survey in the city of Chicago merged with census tract-level data finds that neighborhood-level factors such as segregation and concentrated poverty influence the reasons why residents do not have home Internet access, as well as individual-level factors. Interactions demonstrate differential effects of age across racial and ethnic groups, and the amplification of disparities in access in segregated neighborhoods, especially for Latinos in gateway immigrant neighborhoods. Place effects need to be taken into account in further research and theory on technology inequality, and in public policy as well.
AB - While current federal programs for broadband have invested heavily in rural infrastructure, significant disparities in Internet use remain in urban areas, where broadband networks are available. The success of the national broadband plan and federal policy require understanding barriers to Internet adoption, including persistent inequalities in urban areas. Analysis of a random sample telephone survey in the city of Chicago merged with census tract-level data finds that neighborhood-level factors such as segregation and concentrated poverty influence the reasons why residents do not have home Internet access, as well as individual-level factors. Interactions demonstrate differential effects of age across racial and ethnic groups, and the amplification of disparities in access in segregated neighborhoods, especially for Latinos in gateway immigrant neighborhoods. Place effects need to be taken into account in further research and theory on technology inequality, and in public policy as well.
KW - broadband
KW - digital divide
KW - neighborhood effects
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U2 - 10.1177/1078087412453713
DO - 10.1177/1078087412453713
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867673907
SN - 1078-0874
VL - 48
SP - 771
EP - 810
JO - Urban Affairs Review
JF - Urban Affairs Review
IS - 6
ER -