Digitisation's Impacts on publics: Public Knowledge and Civic Conversation

• Main Authors: Lovari, Alessandro, KIM, Soojin, Vibber, Kelly, KIM, Jeong-Nam
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Business and Corporate Communications; Communication Technology and New Media; Social Influence and Political Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4733; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5732/viewcontent/Digitisations_impacts_on_publics__Public_knowledge_and_civic_con.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper proposes a new way of classifying publics in terms of their adoption and use of digitalised communication technologies. A CATI (computer aided telephone interview) survey of 1,014 citizens revealed that people in Siena, Italy, show different patterns and gaps in adopting new media and tec...