Rethinking the digital divide

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 709-733

  Light, Jennifer S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.17763/haer.71.4.342x36742j2w4q82     Document Type: Article

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