When you retire, does everything become leisure? Information and communication technology use and the work/leisure boundary in retirement

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1143-1161

  Buse, Christina Eira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer use; Gender; Internet use; Older people; Retirement; Work leisure

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449644349     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809342052     Document Type: Article

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