Community business: The internet in remote Australian Indigenous communities

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1230-1251

  McCallum, Kerry ^a   Papandrea, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Indigenous; Internet; Remote Indigenous communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449646440     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809342059     Document Type: Article

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