With a little help from my friends: An analysis of the role of social support in digital inequalities
With a little help from my friends: An analysis of the role of social support in digital inequalities
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DOI：
10.1177/1461444814562162
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
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5
通讯作者：
Verdegem, Pieter
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作者：
Courtois, Cedric;Verdegem, Pieter
本文对社会支持网络的构成、社会经济背景及其在解释数字不平等中的调节作用进行了实证研究。它在概念上借鉴并在经验上重申了Van Dijk的多重访问模型，承认动机、材料、技能和使用的差异，同时关注社会支持作为社会学习不可或缺的来源这一尚未得到充分研究的问题。除了一小部分自力更生者外，研究结果还显示了一种相对社会弱势的家庭支持接受者模式，其特征是数字资源较少。第二种社会支持模式指向社会上相对有利的非家庭支持接受者（即朋友/同事），数字资源丰富。根据社交网络中的同质性概念，研究结果表明，离线和在线排斥之间存在联系，使数字不平等永久化。
This article reports an empirical study on the composition and socio-economic background of social support networks and their moderating role in explaining digital inequalities. It conceptually draws upon and empirically reaffirms Van Dijk's multiple access model, acknowledging motivational, material, skill and usage divides, while focussing on the under-researched issue of social support as indispensible source of social learning. Besides a small group of self-reliants, the results indicate a pattern of relatively socially disadvantaged domestic support receivers, characterized by lower digital resources. A second social support pattern points to a relatively socially advantaged non-domestic support receivers (i.e. friends/colleagues), high in digital resources. Drawing upon the concept of homophily in social networks, the results indicate a link between offline and online exclusion, perpetuating digital inequalities.