Social work and the changing face of the digital divide

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 740-753

  Steyaert, Jan ^a,c   Gould, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^c FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Information society; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349596974     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcp022     Document Type: Article

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