Resistance to globalization: Language and Internet diffusion patterns in Uzbekistan

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-220

  Wei, Carolyn Y ^a   Kolko, Beth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GLOBALIZATION; ONLINE LANGUAGES;

INTERNET;

EID: 29144470081     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560500402817     Document Type: Review

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