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Past and Future of the Digital Divide: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review

  • Informatization Policy
  • Abbr : 정보화정책
  • 2011, 18(4), pp.103-137
  • Publisher : NIA
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy

김성욱 1

1서울여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The digital divide (DD) has been recognized as one of the most serious social and public policy issues to emerge from the rapid growth of computing facility, particularly in regard to Internet capabilities, over the past decade. In order to identify DD research trends and contributions, this research has adopted a bibliometric approach to quantitatively assess the research trends of the DD and also utilized information from related literature in the EV2 database from 2000 to 2011. The results show that the most frequently documented type of publications are journal articles, making up 55.2% of the total database of literature. English is the primary language (96.7%), and USA researchers have made the largest contribution (17.0%) to DD literature. Tokai University (Japan), Tilburg University (Netherlands), and Arizona State University (USA) rank as the top three author affiliations. Information technology, the Internet, and economic and social effects are the three top key words that appear in the related DD literature. The results also revealed various regional evidence, main topics, perspectives, frameworks, and solutions that were introduced in DD publications.

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