Cultural appropriations of technical capital: Black women, weblogs, and the digital divide

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1040-1059

  Brock, André ^a   Kvasny, Lynette ^b   Hales, Kayla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cyberculture; Gender; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958529180     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2010.498897     Document Type: Article

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