The citizen-led information practices of ICT4D in rural communities of China: A mixed-method study

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Highlights：

• This study adopts a mixed-method approach which combines the case study method and social network analysis to study information practices in ICT4D.

• This study finds three stages of awareness building and exploration, knowledge and experience translation, and virtual village cocreation in rural ICT4D.

• This study finds that six citizen-led absorption and desorption information practices play key enabling roles in rural ICT4D.

• This study contributes to the extant studies of ICT4D from a new perspective of citizen-led technology implementation.

摘要

•This study adopts a mixed-method approach which combines the case study method and social network analysis to study information practices in ICT4D.•This study finds three stages of awareness building and exploration, knowledge and experience translation, and virtual village cocreation in rural ICT4D.•This study finds that six citizen-led absorption and desorption information practices play key enabling roles in rural ICT4D.•This study contributes to the extant studies of ICT4D from a new perspective of citizen-led technology implementation.

论文关键词：Citizen-led information practices,ICT4D,Information practice theory,Mixed method

论文评审过程：Received 15 August 2019, Revised 12 September 2020, Accepted 14 September 2020, Available online 22 October 2020, Version of Record 22 October 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102248