New perspectives: An analysis of gender, net-generation children, and computers

Library Trends

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 360-386

  Dresang, Eliza T ^a   Gross, Melissa ^a   Holt, Leslie ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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