The IT crowd: Are we stereotypes?

IT Professional

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 24-27

  García Crespo, Ángel ^a   Colomo Palacios, Ricardo ^a   Gómez Berbs, Juan Miguel ^a   Tovar Caro, Edmundo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computing profession; IT as a profession; IT professionals; IT stereotypes; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING PROFESSION; IT AS A PROFESSION; IT PROFESSIONALS; IT STEREOTYPES; PERSONALITY TRAITS;

IMAGE RECORDING;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 58149502478     PISSN: 15209202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITP.2008.134     Document Type: Article

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