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Broadband and civic engagement in rural areas: What matters?

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  • Brian E. Whitacre
  • Jacob L. Manlove

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This article uses recent data on both broadband and civic engagement to assess how various aspects of broadband access might be related to community involvement in rural areas of the US. In particular, it seeks to answer whether broadband access, adoption, or infrastructure (as measured by community anchor institutions) has the strongest relationship with specific civic engagement metrics. The data include 19 specific civic engagement metrics from the 2011 Current Population Survey and 2011 data on broadband access and adoption from the National Broadband Map and the Federal Communications Commission. Scatterplots and regression analysis using both aggregate (state-level) data and individual (household-level) data were used to assess overall relationships. The results of both univariate and multivariate analyses suggest that it is the adoption of broadband that is the most influential to civic engagement overall; however, community anchor institutions are important for certain metrics such as interactions with neighbors or confidence in local schools.

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  • Brian E. Whitacre & Jacob L. Manlove, 2016. "Broadband and civic engagement in rural areas: What matters?," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(5), pages 700-717, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:comdev:v:47:y:2016:i:5:p:700-717
    DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2016.1212910
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    1. Manlove, Jacob & Whitacre, Brian, 2019. "Understanding the trend to mobile-only internet connections:A decomposition analysis," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 76-87.
    2. Whitacre, Brian & Gallardo, Roberto, 2020. "State broadband policy: Impacts on availability," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(9).
    3. Brorsen, B. Wade, 2017. "2016 WAEA Presidential Address: Comments on Agricultural Economics Research," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 42(1), pages 1-9, January.
    4. Strover, Sharon & Choi, Jaewon & Schrubbe, Alexis, 2024. "Broadband, rural contexts and local economic dynamics," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(3).
    5. Deller, Steven & Whitacre, Brian, 2018. "Broadband’s Relationship to Rural Housing Values," Staff Paper Series 591, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    6. Manlove, Jacob & Whitacre, Brian, 2019. "An evaluation of the Connected Nation broadband adoption program," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(7), pages 1-1.
    7. Lingling Qiu & Weizhong Zeng & Shashi Kant & Sen Wang, 2021. "The Role of Social Capital in Rural Households’ Perceptions toward the Benefits of Forest Carbon Sequestration Projects: Evidence from a Rural Household Survey in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-16, January.
    8. Kelsey L. Conley & Brian E. Whitacre, 2020. "Home Is Where the Internet Is? High-speed Internet’s Impact on Rural Housing Values," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 43(5), pages 501-530, September.

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