The impact of internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the internet

Information Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Wei, Lu ^a   Zhang, Mingxin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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