ICT Adoption and Booming E-Commerce Usage in the COVID-19 Era

Tong Zou, Ali Cheshmehzangi

Frontiers in Psychology · 2022 · 35 citations · 29 references

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With the rise of the digital economy, digitalization has fundamentally transformed the way we live and work [Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OCED), 2019]. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019, people have been increasingly relying more on digital technologies due to pandemic prevention and control strategies such as lockdown, social distancing, enclosure of restaurants and malls, etc. COVID-19 has been intensively transforming the world's trends, people's behavior, nature of business, and daily life Meanwhile, it has been acting as a catalyst or accelerator of this new digital revolution in the COVID-19 Era, especially for the rapid adoption of e-learning and e-commerce globally.

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