A generational comparison of gender, computer anxiety, and computer-email-web fluency

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Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 54-69

  Bunz, Ulla ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer anxiety; Computer email web (CEW) fluency; Gender, digital divide, knowledge gap hypothesis; Technology use, age

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349266300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14966603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/sim.9.2.003     Document Type: Article

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