Cyberkids or divided generations? characterising young people's internet use in the UK with generic, continuum or typological models

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1104-1122

  Holmes, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cyberkids; internet use; latent class analysis; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055124880     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810397649     Document Type: Article

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