Inequalities creating economic barriers to owning mobile phones in India: Factors responsible for the gender digital divide
Inequalities creating economic barriers to owning mobile phones in India: Factors responsible for the gender digital divide
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DOI：
10.1177/0266666915605163
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发表时间：
2016-11-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Potnis, Devendra
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作者：
Potnis, Devendra
在印度，男性拥有大约70%的移动的手机，这就在世界上拥有最广泛的信息和通信技术（ICT）方面造成了性别数字鸿沟。这项研究调查了印度245名女性贫民窟居民无法拥有一部移动的手机的原因。调查答复的开放、轴向和选择性编码显示，受访者生活中的社会文化、经济、人口、心理、通信相关和健康相关的不平等造成了8个经济障碍，使受访者无法拥有一些每月1美元分期付款、价值15美元左右的最便宜的移动的手机。
In India, men own around 70% of mobile phones, creating a gender digital divide for the most widely owned information and communication technology (ICT) in the world. This study investigates the factors responsible for the inability of 245 female slum-dwellers in India earning less than $2 a day to own a mobile phone. Open, axial and selective coding of survey responses shows that socio-cultural, economic, demographic, psychological, communication-related, and health related inequalities in the lives of the respondents create eight economic barriers precluding respondents from owning some of the least expensive mobile phones worth $15 or so on installments of $1 a month.