A 'smart house' is not a home: The domestication of ICTs

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 599-608

  Richardson, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Smart house'; Access; Digital inequality; Domestication of ICTs; Gender

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DIVIDE; DIGITAL INEQUALITIES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LIMITED COMPANIES; SMART HOUSE; SOCIAL WELL-BEING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

HOUSES;

EID: 77950689796     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9137-9     Document Type: Article

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