Factors of Digital Inclusion Among Women: Revisiting India and Extending to Chile and Australia for Additional Analysis
ORCID iD
Kim M. Thompson: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-3688
Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
digital inclusion
Abstract
Digital technology plays an important role in women’s everyday lives. Various factors determine adoption, use, and enjoyment of digital technology by women. Our 2016 Library Quarterly article introduced a qualitative look at women’s adoption and use of digital technologies. The current article is a continuation of the previous study, wherein we interview women in Chile and Australia to examine factors of women’s acceptance of digital technologies for everyday life use identified with the India data. We reflect on the role digital technology plays in women’s everyday lives in these three countries and what cultural factors determine adoption, use, and enjoyment of digital technology, including digital literacy factors, everyday life factors, professional use factors, time factors, social networking factors, and privacy and security factors. We add two factors to our existing model of digital inclusion: physical access factors and device dependency factors.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1086/707673
Publication Info
Published in The Library Quarterly, Volume 90, Issue 2, 2020, pages 173-188.
APA Citation
Paul, A., & Thompson, K. (2020). Factors of Digital Inclusion Among Women: Revisiting India and Extending to Chile and Australia for Additional Analysis. The Library Quarterly, 90(2), 173–188. https://doi.org/10.1086/707673