This paper examines the impact of using the Internet and social networks as sources of information on individuals' understanding of democracy. The analysis draws on data from the sixth round of the Afrobarometer survey, conducted in 2014, across a sample of African countries, some of which are...

This report draws on the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study to look at pornography use among over 4,500 young adults at 20 years of age. Pornography use was captured as part of a module of questions on different types of internet use. The rich information provided by the GUI study allows us to...

Im Juni 2022 wurden mit der TK-Mindestversorgungsverordnung (TKMV) technische Mindestanforderungen für den Internetzugangsdienst festgelegt (Datenübertragungsrate im Down- und Upload und maximal tolerierte Latenz). Ob die 2021 von wik und zafaco ermittelten Werte weiterhin Bestand haben und ob...

This paper investigates whether social media access is associated with increased probability or intensity of ethnic conflict in Myanmar. In this context most people use mobile phones, and particularly the Facebook app, to access the internet. To distinguish the effects of social media from those...

The advent of m-commerce has reinvented and simplified the shopping experience for the digital native generation. The following questions were the starting points for this research: is nutrition labeling important in purchase decisions? Could a new format for food nutrition labeling in...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly powerful, enabling users to perform tasks more efficiently and effectively. However, not all users are equally able to take advantage of its capabilities. We draw on previous literature that has introduced the concept of “substantive use”...

Food insecurity is essential since its prevalence may hinder an individual or an economy from developing. The issue still lacks attention in Indonesia, as reflected in the lagging efforts to reduce food insecurity. Meanwhile, several previous studies have found that increasing internet access...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the existing shortfall in telecommunications infrastructure in Peru, particularly in terms of Internet connectivity in urban areas, let alone rural ones. However, this challenge has also led to a shift in the population’s perception regarding the relevance of...

The progress in information and communication technology since the 1970s has expanded Internet use and promoted economic development worldwide. Although empirical studies have revealed that social norms change with economic and social development, empirical evidence regarding the association...

Sustainable economic growth and environmental degradation are two concerns confronting humanity. Saudi Arabia has seen a dramatic rise in its atmospheric carbon emissions during the last three decades. From 1995 to 2020, this research uses the decoupling index and vector error correction model...

The digital environment, which includes the Internet and social networks, is propitious for digital marketing. However, the collection, filtering and analysis of the enormous, constant flow of information on social networks is a major challenge for both academics and practitioners. The aim of...

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants, has not escaped the Internet phenomenon, as the...

Population decline and aging have caused various critical problems in rural areas in developed countries, including Japan. Recently, information and communication technology (ICT) has widely spread even in rural areas. International research has been steadily increasing on the relationships...

Micro and small industries (MSIs) must utilize digital technology if they hope to meet obstacles and endure in a market that is always evolving owing to technological advancements. This study aims to examine the capacity of business factors, marketing factors, constraint factors, credit factors,...

The COVID-19 pandemic enhanced digital transformation. With the spread of the pandemic and the introduction of epidemiological measures, citizens were enforced to use the Internet to an increased extent. The digital divide among citizens and the capability of citizens to get an equal level of...

This paper aims to explore the use of, experiences with, and risks of internet among children in Kosovo. This country has never been involved in the European project called Kids Online. Through a survey based on the Kids Online questionnaire, 437 children aged 11-16 were surveyed in 34 schools...

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of digital use by the government in order to serve the community when facing the Covid-19 pandemic and preparation for the Socialization era, which is an innovation that needs to be accelerated, so as to provide the best service, the method...

In the digital age, the internet has become an essential source of information gathering and maintains a network of social contact. In this paper, we use microdata from the China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of guardian's internet use on teenager's cognitive skills. Using mobile...

The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. This paper investigates whether aggregation of content by a single platform encourages users to “skim” content or to investigate it in depth. We study a contract dispute that led a...

"This cutting-edge text brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners to examine how digital has become the default space for advertising - in practice, communication, and commercial process. Providing a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary account of a complex contemporary moment...

The internet enables the media to initially post and change articles at any time. I compare this situation to one in which news can only be released once. I determine the editorial standard, a cutoff for how confident a firm must be to post an article. If changing a story is costly, the firm's...

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 617,402 individuals from 2,120...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden auf der Basis einer Befragung mit 1.158 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Travel Journeys von Digital Natives und Digital Immigrants verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die digitalen Touchpoints sowohl für die Digital Natives als auch für...

In this article, we measure the relationship between various types of the Internet use, digital divide and the social capital of users. We use panel data from a Russian longitudinal monitoring survey for 2012-2018. Fixed effect logit model is applied. The results of the regression show that the...

How does mobile internet access affect the desire to emigrate and migration plans? To answer this question, we combine survey data on more than 600,000 individuals from 110 countries with data on worldwide 3G mobile internet rollout. We show that an increase in mobile internet access increases...

This study explores the influence of Internet use on the gender wage gap in China by using national longitudinal survey data. A fixed effects and instrumental variable method were employed to address individual heterogeneity and other endogeneity problems. The study contributes in the form of...

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 606,827 individuals from 2,107...

This paper investigates the responses of firms and governments to social media activities. The unexpected release and short­lived circulation of the environmental documentary Under the Dome in China in 2015 offers a natural experiment. We combine a comprehensive firm-­level pollutant emissions...