Gaps in the worldwide information explosion: How the Internet is affecting the worldwide knowledge gap

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 135-150

  Speight, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ONLINE CONFERENCING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

KNOWLEDGE GAP HYPOTHESIS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0033332820     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-5853(99)00024-6     Document Type: Article

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