The diffusion of the internet and rural development

Convergence

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-305

  Jinqiu, Zhao ^a,b   Xiaoming, Hao ^a,c   Banerjee, Indrajit ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Farmers; Internet adoption; Internet usage; Rural development; Western China

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049476291     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856506067202     Document Type: Article

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