Understanding information inequality: Making sense of the literature of the information and digital divides

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 229-252

  Yu, Liangzhi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Information inequality; Information poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751510464     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: 17416477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000606070600     Document Type: Article

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