ERIC Number: EJ1132895
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2326-3873
EISSN: N/A
Schooling Attainment's Influence on Internet Adoption: Education's Role in the Cross-National Development of the Mass-Media Knowledge Gap
Mann, Bryan A.; Smith, William C.; Baker, David P.
FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, v3 n3 Article 5 p47-69 2016
Research about innovation adoption underplays the role of educational attainment in the individual consumption of technology; consequently, past research underestimates the importance education plays independent of wealth in diffusion, particularly as absolute levels of formal education rise worldwide. Using data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this study employs clustered logistic regression to show how educational attainment of adults independently relates to household Internet adoption, net of wealth and other social factors. The results nuance and enhance discussions about the Digital Divide and the mass media knowledge gap hypothesis, showing, through a unique, cross-national dataset, that indeed there is an independent association between education and Internet adoption, creating a disadvantage for those with lower educational attainment.
Descriptors: Internet, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Attainment, Adults, Regression (Statistics), Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Mass Media, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Family Income
Lehigh University Library and Technology Services. 8A East Packer Avenue, Fairchild Martindale Library Room 514, Bethlehem, PA 18015. e-mail: fire@lehigh.edu; Web site: http://preserve.lehigh.edu/fire/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: South America; Europe; Asia; United States; Australia; New Zealand
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A