Reconsidering political and popular understandings of the digital divide

New Media and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-362

  Selwyn, Neil ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Cultural capital; Digital divide; ICT; Inequalities; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942666040     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444804042519     Document Type: Article

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