Offline social ties and online use of computers: A study of disabled youth and their use of ICT advances

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 709-727

  Söderström, Sylvia ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Digital differentiation; Disabled youth; ICT; Mixed reality; Social ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449480737     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809105347     Document Type: Article

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