Old wine in a new technology, or a different type of digital divide?

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1163-1186

  Cotten, Shelia R ^a   Anderson, William A ^a   Tufekci, Zeynep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Gender; Mobile phone; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449729782     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809342056     Document Type: Article

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