TY - JOUR
T1 - Benefitting from Digital Opportunity
T2 - Do Socio-economically Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups React in the Same Ways?
AU - Kaba, Bangaly
AU - Meso, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the financial support from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of CODESRIA. The authors also thank Mark Keil, the Board of Advisors Professor, and Dr. Hsieh of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University and for their advice and guidelines at the early stage of this work. Finally, we acknowledge the help of our research assistants, namely Mariama Noura KEBE, Essan Sandra-Marie Albertine DIBO-AMANY, Souckeihyna Axelle Coralie KEITA, during the data collection.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the financial support from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of CODESRIA. The authors also thank Mark Keil, the Board of Advisors Professor, and Dr. Hsieh of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University and for their advice and guidelines at the early stage of this work. Finally, we acknowledge the help of our research assistants, namely Mariama Noura KEBE, Essan Sandra-Marie Albertine DIBO-AMANY, Souckeihyna Axelle Coralie KEITA, during the data collection. Appendix A
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Bangaly Kaba and Peter Meso.
PY - 2019/10/2
Y1 - 2019/10/2
N2 - This study investigates differences in Internet continued-use intention for socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged groups in Cote d’Ivoire by comparing their expectancy disconfirmation models. Its findings postulate that use-continuance behavior may be a viable proxy for understanding digital inequality especially in societies where the internet is readily accessible. In so doing, it provides an alternative theoretical framework for understanding and/or investigating the digital divide in various societal contexts in the current era where, because of significant advances in physical access to the internet made possible by mobile telephony and extensive diffusion of the internet, mere access is rapidly declining in value as a clear proxy for the presence, scope and/or intensity of the digital divide. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.
AB - This study investigates differences in Internet continued-use intention for socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged groups in Cote d’Ivoire by comparing their expectancy disconfirmation models. Its findings postulate that use-continuance behavior may be a viable proxy for understanding digital inequality especially in societies where the internet is readily accessible. In so doing, it provides an alternative theoretical framework for understanding and/or investigating the digital divide in various societal contexts in the current era where, because of significant advances in physical access to the internet made possible by mobile telephony and extensive diffusion of the internet, mere access is rapidly declining in value as a clear proxy for the presence, scope and/or intensity of the digital divide. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.
KW - Africa
KW - Digital inequality
KW - integrative model
KW - internet
KW - socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged
KW - use continuance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074255602&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1097198X.2019.1679587
DO - 10.1080/1097198X.2019.1679587
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074255602
SN - 1097-198X
VL - 22
SP - 257
EP - 279
JO - Journal of Global Information Technology Management
JF - Journal of Global Information Technology Management
IS - 4
ER -