The digital divide: How wide and how deep?

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Schloman, Barbara F ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Information inequality; Internet access

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIGITAL COMPUTER; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; LIBRARY; ONLINE SYSTEM; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22544483862     PISSN: 10913734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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