Towards a unified Media-User Typology (MUT): A meta-analysis and review of the research literature on media-user typologies

PB Brandtzæg - Computers in Human Behavior, 2010 - Elsevier
Considering the increasingly complex media landscape and diversity of use, it is important
to establish a common ground for identifying and describing the variety of ways in which …

The digital divide shifts to differences in usage

AJAM Van Deursen, JAGM Van Dijk - New media & society, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In a representative survey of the Dutch population we found that people with low levels of
education and disabled people are using the Internet for more hours a day in their spare …

Modeling the second-level digital divide: A five-country study of social differences in Internet use

M Büchi, N Just, M Latzer - New media & society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Based on representative surveys on Internet use, this article advances comparative research
on the second-level digital divide by modeling Internet usage disparities for five countries …

Dimensions of Internet use: amount, variety, and types

G Blank, D Groselj - Current Research on Information …, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
We examine the dimensions of Internet use based on a representative sample of the
population of the UK, making three important contributions. First, we clarify theoretical …

Understanding the new digital divide—A typology of Internet users in Europe

PB Brandtzæg, J Heim, A Karahasanović - International journal of human …, 2011 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to better understand the digital divide by identifying the variety of
ways in which people in Europe use the Internet. First, by using cluster analysis on survey …

Internet (non-) use types and motivational access: Implications for digital inequalities research

BC Reisdorf, D Groselj - New Media & Society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Research into digital inequalities has shifted from a binary view of Internet use versus non-
use to studying gradations in Internet use. However, this research has mostly compared …

Modeling traditional literacy, Internet skills and Internet usage: An empirical study

AJAM Van Deursen, JAGM Van Dijk - Interacting with computers, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This paper focuses on the relationships among traditional literacy (reading, writing and
understanding text), medium-related Internet skills (consisting of operational and formal …

Co-creation and user-generated content–elderly people's user requirements

A Karahasanović, PB Brandtzæg, J Heim… - Computers in human …, 2009 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand on citizens to participate in social network websites and to
create and share their own user-generated content (UGC), such as photographs, videos …

Digital media as ambiguous goods: Examining the digital well-being experiences and disconnection practices of Belgian adults

MMP Vanden Abeele… - European Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from a cross-sectional survey (N= 1000), this study examines (1) the extent to which
Belgian adults experience digital well-being (ie perceive agency over and functional support …

Patterns of media use and leisure time among older adults

S Dal Cin, M Mustafaj, K Nielsen - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The aging population is rapidly growing both in the United States and many other parts of
the world. Simultaneously, technology is rapidly progressing, and new forms of media have …