Whither digital equality?: An empirical study of the democratic divide

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nam, Taewoo ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT; AMERICAN ONLINE; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GROUP DIFFERENCES; POLITICAL ACTIVITY; POLITICAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

INTERNET;

EID: 77951761479     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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