Understanding the non-metropolitan-metropolitan digital divide

Growth and Change

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-243

  Mills, Bradford F ^a   Whitacre, Brian E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141890770     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2257.00215     Document Type: Article

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