Despite significant improvements in nominal levels, severe gaps of digital inclusion still exist in the American economy. This paper argues that, for certain groups, migration towards mobile computing and digital inclusion may transpire from 2G voice centric mobile telecommunications to data centric mobile computing devices. Accordingly, this analysis employs a large data set to investigate what socio-economic factors are determinant for the diffusion of mobile telecommunications; how these findings can be extended to help close the digital divide; and how these findings can inform policy making concerning the digital divide.
Author Keywords: Digital divide; Mobile computing; 2G & 3G mobile communications; Internet
Len-Rios, Maria E. (author / University of Kansas), Gorman, Frances (author / University of Kansas), and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2003-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19217
Notes:
14 pages; Presented to the Science Communication Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, July 2003, Kansas City, Missouri
Bostrom, K. (author), Mayes, D. (author), and Texas A&M University}Texas A&M University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08827
Notes:
The 93rd annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists --Communications Section. Greensboro, North Carolina. February 4-7, 1996; p. 10-15
