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Use and non-use of ICTs: the case of three urban ghettos in Seoul Metropolitan City

  • Informatization Policy
  • Abbr : 정보화정책
  • 2012, 19(2), pp.39~56
  • Publisher : NIA
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy

CHOI, YOUNG HOON 1,  Jin-Kyung Jung 1

1광운대학교

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ABSTRACT

The authors utilized two contested perspectives on the use and non-use of ICTs, especially the Internet, to verify three assumptions of urban ghettos as fundamentally excluded from the ICT structure, ghetto people as behaving in the same way, and deficiency as the sole explanatory variable of their non-use. The first assumption that the urban ghettos would be fundamentally excluded from the urban ICT structure can be nullified by our finding about the prevalence of ICTs in that area, albeit apparent lower level of access to ICTs compared to that of the urban core. The second assumption that the urban ghetto residents would display the same information behaviors would be challenged by our finding that the availability and usages of the Internet would be hardly consistent by gender, age, occupation, family size, and locational characteristics. The third assumption that deficiency would capture the Internet non-use by ghetto residents was found very tenable but could be rivaled by the choice perspective that use or non-use is simply a result of situated choice. Theoretical and practical implications were suggested.

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