Mechanisms of engagement with, and disengagement from, internet applications: A qualitative study of online job search
Reinartz A, Graf-Vlachy L, Buhtz K, König A (2018)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2018
Publisher: Association for Information Systems
Conference Proceedings Title: International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018
Event location: San Francisco, CA, USA
ISBN: 9780996683173
Abstract
In the context of increasing digitization and persistent digital inequality, scholars have sought to uncover the mechanisms that explain why people engage with, or disengage from, internet applications. We provide a new vantage to this conversation by conducting a qualitative study among 16 job-seekers in Germany who differ in how they use online job search applications. Enfolding coping and capital theory in our emerging understanding, we develop a dynamic perspective of how an individual's resources-social capital, cultural capital, and habitus-as well as further contextual factors-perceived risk and trust in social capital-determine the appraisal and the decision to use internet applications or to abandon them. Our model suggests social capital plays a more important role in engaging people with internet applications than portrayed in previous studies. Our research carries important implications for information systems scholars and for policy makers seeking to bridge digital divides.
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APA:
Reinartz, A., Graf-Vlachy, L., Buhtz, K., & König, A. (2018). Mechanisms of engagement with, and disengagement from, internet applications: A qualitative study of online job search. In International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018. San Francisco, CA, USA: Association for Information Systems.
MLA:
Reinartz, Annika, et al. "Mechanisms of engagement with, and disengagement from, internet applications: A qualitative study of online job search." Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA Association for Information Systems, 2018.
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