Internet usage in Australia

Introduction

I chose to showcase the Internet usage in Australia through a concrete display. At the same time, I hope to briefly include the importance of education in the picture. According to the statement of Rennie et al., due to the influence of their regionality and special living habits in remote areas, the Internet usage rate is low (2016).

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Articles by Rennie, Thomas, Wilson and others mentioned that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are more likely to become mobile-only users (2019). In addition, according to the data provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, only 63% of Aboriginals and Torres have access to the Internet in the homes of Strait residents, which is quite low compared to 75% of non-indigenous households. The existence of remote media or schools is conducive to the popularization of the Internet (Rennie et al. 2016). Therefore, universalization and improvement of education is also a key agenda to alleviate the uneven distribution of the Internet in Australia.

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I chose to use Photoshop to express the use of the Internet in Australia by digitally processing images. In order to show the internet usage in Australia’s non-stop regions in as specific a way as possible, I filled different regions on the map of Australia with different colors, so that different regions can be displayed simply and clearly. I plan to use the Wi-Fi logo in the picture to symbolize the network, so I cut out the Wi-Fi icon and paste the edited image unevenly on the map representing the Australian territory to show the penetration rate of the Australian network. The present situation of uneven regional distribution. At the same time, since the use of the Internet by the indigenous people is a part of this theme that cannot be ignored, I placed relevant pictures on the map of the areas where the indigenous people are widely distributed.

References

Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2021. Census. [online] Available at: https://www.abs.gov.au/census [Accessed 26 July 2021].

Rennie, E., Hogan, E., Gregory, R., Crouch, A., Wright, A. & Thomas, J. 2016, Internet on the outstation: the digital divide and remote Aboriginal communities, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.

Rennie, E., Thomas, J., & Wilson, C. (2019). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and digital inclusion: what is the evidence and where is it? Communication Research and Practice, 5(2), 105–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2019.1601148