Tools and toys: Communicating gendered positions towards technology

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 358-383

  Kelan, Elisabeth K ^a  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Gender; ICTs; Technology; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547246984     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701409960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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