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Exploring the mismatch between mobile phone adoption and use through survey data from rural India and China
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Haenssgen, Marco Johannes (2016) Exploring the mismatch between mobile phone adoption and use through survey data from rural India and China. In: 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) , Dublin, 11-12 Nov 2015. Published in: 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) pp. 1-15. doi:10.1109/ISTAS.2015.7439402 ISSN 2158-3412.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2015.7439402
Abstract
Persistent disciplinary and methodological divides between technology diffusion and adoption studies and the study of use and engagement with technology raise obstacles to understanding the development implications of mobile technology diffusion, for example in the area of healthcare access. As quantitative assessments in the area of health and technology almost exclusively rely on binary indicators of mobile phone adoption, it is not clear whether this is indeed a reasonable proxy that does not obscure the distributional implications of mobile phone use. This paper therefore compares patterns of mobile phone adoption and utilisation using original survey data from rural India and China. "Utilisation" here is assessed through a simple yet novel multidimensional index. The paper further assesses the role of these concepts as determinants of locally emerging forms of mobile-phone-aided healthcare-seeking behavior ("health action"). The investigation uses descriptive statistical analysis and multilevel logistic regression analysis, which provide evidence in support of the claims that (a) patterns of mobile phone diffusion and utilisation are related yet incongruent, that (b) mobile phones facilitate health action in both field sites to a notable extent, and that (c) the mobile phone utilisation index is a better predictor for phone-aided health action than mobile phone adoption. In light of the superiority of the utilisation index vis-à-vis binary measures of mobile phone adoption, other researchers can apply the survey instrument and technology utilisation concept developed in this paper to support the analysis of the social implications of technology diffusion.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development | ||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cell phones -- India, Cell phones -- China, Diffusion of innovations -- India, Diffusion of innovations -- China, Mobile computing -- Developing countries, Rural development -- India, Rural development -- China | ||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) | ||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | IEEE | ||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2158-3412 | ||||||||||||||||||
Book Title: | 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) | ||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 24 March 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 1-15 | ||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1109/ISTAS.2015.7439402 | ||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. | ||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 November 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 November 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||||||||||||||
Title of Event: | 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) | ||||||||||||||||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||||||||||||||
Location of Event: | Dublin | ||||||||||||||||||
Date(s) of Event: | 11-12 Nov 2015 |
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