Information-channel preferences and information opportunity structures

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 472-494

  Robinson, Laura ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Digital divide; Habitus; Information capital; Information seeking; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958201215     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.562224     Document Type: Article

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