[Air-L] New Publication - Social Theory of Internet Use: Corroboration or Rejection among the Digital Natives? Correspondence Analysis of Adolescents in 2 Societies

Tomasz Drabowicz tomasz.drabowicz at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 09:13:38 PST 2016


Dear all,


I would like to inform you about my paper:


"Social Theory of Internet Use: Corroboration or Rejection among the
Digital Natives? Correspondence Analysis of Adolescents in Two Societies"

Abstract: This paper tests a theory of social uses of the Internet
(López-Sintas, Filimon, & García-Álvarez, 2012), inspired by the work of
Bourdieu (1984, 1986, 1989), outside the Spanish national context in which
it was initially formulated. Using the OECD's PISA 2012 data for Germany
and Norway, it specifically seeks to uncover differences in patterns of
Information and Communication Technologies usage among fifteen-year olds
and the factors structuring those differences. Simple Correspondence
Analysis has been used as the method of investigation. The results of the
analysis show similarities between usage spaces in Germany and Norway;
where the first, dominant dimension represents the frequency of digital use
and the secondary dimension represents the type of frequent digital use.
Furthermore, in both countries gender, migration background, family
structure, the parents' level of education, material access to the Internet
at home, and the number of books at home explain no more than 8.6 percent
of the variance in digital usage. At face value, these results suggest that
the theory of social uses of the Internet should be rejected when applied
to the adolescents in the countries under investigation. The paper argues,
however, that the results should rather be interpreted as an indirect
corroboration of the theory, with age being one of the most significant
aspects of an individual's social standing affecting digital use.


Keywords: Digital inequality; Digital natives; Informational capital;
Correspondence analysis; PISA

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2016.10.004


It will be published in the February issue of Computers & Education (Vol.
105). If your institution does not subscribe to this journal, please do let
me know off list so that I can send you a copy (my e-mail is
tomasz.drabowicz at gmail.com).

Apologies for cross-posting.


Yours faithfully,


tom



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