Children and online risk

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 364-387

  Staksrud, Elisabeth ^a   Livingstone, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Coping; Internet; Parenting; Resilience; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650960995     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802635455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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