Developing digital immigrants' computer literacy: The case of unemployed women

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Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 154-163

  Ktoridou, Despo ^a   Eteokleous Grigoriou, Nikleia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^b FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Age groups; Computer courses; Computer literacy; Cyprus; Digital immigrants; Technology; Unemployed women

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959783361     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650741111145689     Document Type: Article

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