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http://dx.doi.org/10.4275/KSLIS.2014.48.1.257

An Analysis on the Internet Uses and Barriers of the Older Adults in Korea  

Kim, Heesop (경북대학교 문헌정보학과)
Kim, Pansoo (경북대학교 경영학부)
Lee, Misook (경북대학교 정보 격차연구사업단)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science / v.48, no.1, 2014 , pp. 257-276 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the patterns and barriers of the Internet for the elderly adults in Korea. Data was collected through the face to face interview using a questionnaire for the residence of Daegu and Kyungsang Buk-Do areas targeted over the 60-years-olds elder adults. A total of 119 valid response data were analyzed with the descriptive statistics and the group differences by age and gender using SPSS 18.00. It found that the most of the elder adults access the Internet to seek the entertainment contents, the knowledge-related contents, and the cultural and art contents. They spend most of the Internet online session to do searching information and enjoying movie and music. However, there were age differences and gender differences within the subjects. The complexity of computer and the Internet usage is one of the barriers for the Internet access, and they suggest that a customized education and training courses of computer literacy for the elderly adults would be the ways of resolve those obstructions.
Keywords
Old People; Internet Uses; Obstructive Factors; Survey; Group Differences;
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