Are there systematic differences between people who use social network sites and those who stay away, despite a familiarity with them? Based on data from a survey administered to a diverse group of… (More)
Much of the existing literature on the digital divide – the differences between the haves and have nots regarding access to the Internet – limits its scope to a binary classification of technology… (More)
Despite the Internet's increasing importance, there is little social scientific work that addresses its diffusion. Our knowledge is especially limited with respect to the conditions that encourage… (More)
We contend that as Internet penetration increases, students of inequality of access to the new information technologies should shift their attention from the “digital divide” --inequality between… (More)
This article presents survey measures of web-oriented digital literacy to serve as proxies for observed skill measures, which are much more expensive and difficult to collect for large samples.… (More)
Between 1996 and 2003, the Peruvian government issued property titles to over 1.2 million urban households, the largest titling program targeted to urban squatters in the developing world. This paper… (More)
Paul DiMaggio1, Eszter Hargittai1, W. Russell Neuman2, and John P. Robinson3 1Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540; e-mail: dimaggio@princeton.edu,… (More)
The Internet boosts immeasurably our collective capacity to archive information, search through large quantities of it quickly, and retrieve it rapidly. It is said that the Internet will expand… (More)