A framing analysis of African-American and native-American owned micro-enterprises: How can information and communication technology support their development?

Jie Xiong, Sajda Qureshi, Teresa Trumbly Lamsam

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been touted as means of increasing economic development by providing improvements in the lives of people where the use of technology leads to better livelihoods. Despite the high access and use of ICTs in the United States, high unemployment and poverty rates among Native Americans and African Americans continues to rise while deepening existing income inequalities. Through a framing analysis of Native American and African American micro-entrepreneurs, this paper investigates the use of ICTs in six micro-enterprises. Our findings reveal strong community and infrastructure frames in Native American micro-enterprises and their use of Information Technology (IT) products and services for business and economic development. The African American micro-enterprises studied showed low levels of trust affecting their use of ICTs in their businesses. This has important implications for how ICTs may support these micro-enterprises.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
EditorsTung X. Bui, Ralph H. Sprague
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages4315-4324
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781479973675
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 26 2015
Event48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015 - Kauai, United States
Duration: Jan 5 2015Jan 8 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume2015-March
ISSN (Print)1530-1605

Other

Other48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKauai
Period1/5/151/8/15

Keywords

  • Digital divides
  • Economic development
  • Empowerment
  • Framing analysis
  • Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
  • Micro-enterprises

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'A framing analysis of African-American and native-American owned micro-enterprises: How can information and communication technology support their development?'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this