Senior citizens: Digital immigrants in their own country?

Observatorio

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-23

  Loos, Eugène ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Digital immigrants; Digital natives; Digital spectrum; Eye tracking; Senior citizens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859060777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16465954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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