Communication technology adoption and ethnicity

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-32

  Dupagne, Michel ^a   Salwen, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Communication technologies; Diffusion; Ethnicity; New media; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844478289     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646170590915826     Document Type: Article

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