Methodological challenges of digital divide measurements

Information Society

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 279-290

  Vehovar, Vasja ^a   Sicherl, Pavle ^a   Hüsing, Tobias ^b   Dolnicar, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Gesellschaft für Kommunikations und Technologieforschung ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Multivariate analysis; Time distance methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749012850     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240600904076     Document Type: Review

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