'The computer is not for you to be looking around, it is for schoolwork': Challenges for digital inclusion as latino immigrant families negotiate children's access to the internet

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 552-567

  Tripp, Lisa M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnography; family; internet; Latinos; parents; participation gap; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958057191     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810375293     Document Type: Article

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