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Replication Data for: Is the internet really new after all? The determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective (with Richard Perkins), The Professional Geographer, 63 (1) 2011, pp. 55-72

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Title Replication Data for: Is the internet really new after all? The determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective (with Richard Perkins), The Professional Geographer, 63 (1) 2011, pp. 55-72
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EKK05G
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped
by a number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography
than previous communication technologies? Our contribution in this article seeks to address this question
by deploying quantitative techniques to examine whether the country-level adoption of past communication
networks—mail, telegrams, and telephone—was shaped by similar socioeconomic factors. Our results reveal
striking similarities in the domestic attributes—income, education, and trade openness—influencing rates of
uptake across all four technologies during their major periods of diffusion.
 
Subject Social Sciences
digital divide
technology diffusion
internet
telecommunications
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric