Children at home in the wired world: Reshaping and rethinking home in urban geography

Urban Geography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 562-583

  Holloway, Sarah L ^a   Valentine, Gill ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Computers; Geography; Home; ICT; Urban

Indexed keywords

CHILD; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0035723785     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.22.6.562     Document Type: Article

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