Home internet access and usage in the USA: Trends in the socio-economic digital divide

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-98

  Talukdar, Debabrata ^a   Gauri, Dinesh K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Internet; Logistic regression; Public policy issues

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

DIGITAL DIVIDE; FAULT LINE; INTERNET ACCESS; KEY DIMENSIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; URBAN-RURAL;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 79953013938     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02807     Document Type: Article

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