"Being hooked up": Exploring the experiences of street youth and information technologies

Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 161-178

  Karabanow, Jeff ^a   Naylor, Ted D ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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