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  January 2002 Volume 7(2) Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Editors
Internet Adoption in the Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by Jonathan Zhu,
Fay Sudweeks, and Charles Ess
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 ![[In this issue:]](issue.jpg){kind=small} Diffusion of the Internet in the Asia Pacific is increasingly occupying the attention of CMC researchers. What are we learning about the adoption, use, and social impact of the Internet in this dynamic region? The authors consider how access to the Internet and other sources of information, perceived credibility of the Internet and conventional media, and cognitive sophistication relate to value orientations of Chinese Internet users and non-users. Internet adoption in Hong Kong is affected by a full range of factors, including one's personal characteristics, socioeconomic status, socio-cultural settings, and perceived compatibility of the Internet.
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Internet users in Macao are more likely to be male, younger, better educated and with higher monthly household income than non-users. Doing exercise was also a significant predictor of Internet use, couch potato
theories notwithstanding.
There is an overwhelmingly positive attitude towards Internet technologies among NGOs: they are seen as useful in allowing individuals and organizations to access a great deal of information easily for the first time, and for maintaining contacts and creating networks internationally. Like broadcast communication, computer-mediated communication does not obey national borders. Because of this a number of questions are raised insofar as the traditional conception of the public sphere has invariably corresponded to the nation-state. |
Among high school students in Singapore, Internet use depressed television viewing, but stimulated newspaper reading, radio listening, and socializing with friends.
Kiribati is an island nation, and its people are of the sea, with fishing as the mainstay of their subsistence lifestyle. Nets are part of every-day life - but the Net is outside their world. In Taiwan, the Internet as a medium may indeed be "global," yet users continue to live within the "local," the "place" one relates to. The author describes new lines of cybercultural research being developed in Latin America. |
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