To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … the Internet, this ordering is reversed. The region-specific explanations for large disparities in computer and Internet …

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and …-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into …

located in rural areas compared with those in urban agglomerations. Despite many recent attempts to measure digitization … determinants of website prevalence. Comparing urban with rural areas, we show that running a website - as a proxy for the degree of … run websites compared with those located in rural areas. Our county-level analysis shows that a high population density, a …

Der Anteil der Personen in Deutschland, die das Internet nutzen, nimmt stetig zu, vor allem durch eine häufigere …The proportion of people in Germany who use the internet is steadily increasing, especially thanks to an increase in … older people, those with less formal education and more women than men. There is also spatial variation in internet usage, e …

Die Digitalisierung innerhalb der Wohnung nimmt fortwährend zu, vor allem auch durch vernetzte "Dinge" des "Internet of … kann allerdings angenommen werden, dass die Verfügbarkeit von schnellem Internet und der Zugang zum (digitalen …Digitalisation within the home is increasing constantly, especially through networked objects in the "Internet of …