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The Role of Social Culture in Internet Adoption in Greece: Unpacking “I Don't Want to Use the Internet” and Frequency of Use

Panayiota Tsatsou

The Information Society, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 174 - 188

Swansea University Author: Panayiota Tsatsou

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/01972243.2012.670190

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This article examines the role of social culture in Internet adoption in Greece. It employs Hofstede's five-dimensional framework of national culture and analyzes the European Social Survey 2008 data. It finds that social culture in general and particularly people's past or future orientat...

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Published in: The Information Society
Published: Routledge 2012
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