Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-economic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Calderón Gómez, Daniel; Ragnedda, Massimo; Laura Ruiu, Maria
• Is Part Of: European journal of communication. Volume 37:Number 3(2022)
• Page Start: 284
• Page End: 311
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: Digital divide -- digital inequalities -- digital practices -- Internet related -- Internet uses; Mass media -- Research -- Periodicals; 302.234072
• DOI: 10.1177/02673231211046785
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0267-3231

Abstract

This article investigates the entanglement between socio-economic and technological factors in conditioning people's patterns of Internet use. We analysed the influence of sociodemographic and techno-social aspects in conditioning the distinctive digital practices developed by Internet users. By using a representative sample of UK users and different methods of analysis, such as factor analysis, K-means cluster analysis and logit analysis, this study shows how techno-social variables have a stronger effect than socio-economic variables in explaining the advanced use of the Internet.