Theorizing digital and urban inequalities: Critical geographies of 'race', gender and technological capital

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1000-1018

  Gilbert, Melissa ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Digital divide; Gender; Inequalities; Information and communication technology; Race; Technical capital; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958591663     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2010.499954     Document Type: Article

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