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Old wine in a new technology, or a different type of digital divide?

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, cotten{at}uab.edu

William A. Anderson

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, willand{at}uab.edu

Zeynep Tufekci

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, zeynep{at}umbc.edu

Gender differences exist in both general and specific uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Most of this research has focused on computers and the internet to the exclusion of mobile phones. Little research has examined gender differences in specific types of mobile phone usage, especially among youth. This issue is examined using data from a random sample of middle-school students. Although gender differences exist at the bivariate level, the picture changes in multivariate models. Boys exhibited greater frequency of use for non-social, gadget-like features of mobile phones; no gender differences existed in more traditional communicative mobile phone uses.

Key Words: digital divide • gender • mobile phone • youth

This version was published on November 1, 2009

New Media & Society, Vol. 11, No. 7, 1163-1186 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809342056


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