WHERE IS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE? INTRA-GENERATIONAL DIVIDE ON APP USAGE IN POST-PANDEMIC HONG KONG
Bobo Hi-po Lau, Eric Ngai Yin Shum, Fan Yin-Fong Lui, Gigi Lam, Alex Pak-Ki Kwok, Chung-Kin Tsang · 2023
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Bobo Hi-po Lau and five co-authors map a digital divide inside Hong Kong's older generation. After thirteen months of compulsory smartphone-based contact tracing during COVID, the team studied app habits among middle-aged and older adults in mid-2023. A focus group of 145 people aged fifty-five and up and a survey of 750 users aged forty-five and up agreed.
Messaging apps like WhatsApp and WeChat were nearly universal for everyday communication. The split opened around money: mobile banking, online shopping, and small transactions divided users sharply. People who trusted the security of their devices, networks, and banks, and those with higher socioeconomic status, adopted more. A data-driven split found two classes, a broad-using majority of about sixty-four percent and a narrower group, differing in age, status, device ownership, skill, and optimism about technology. The authors point to where support should aim.
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| CREATOR | Bobo Hi-po Lau, Eric Ngai Yin Shum, Fan Yin-Fong Lui, Gigi Lam, Alex Pak-Ki Kwok, Chung-Kin Tsang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |