Internet skills and the digital divide

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 893-911

  van Deursen, Alexander ^a   van Dijk, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

digital divide; inequality; information; internet; internet skills; literacy; online

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052330746     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810386774     Document Type: Article

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