The Trend of Class, Race, and Ethnicity in Social Media Inequality: Who still cannot afford to blog?

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-571

  Schradie, Jen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

class; digital inequality; digital production; ethnicity; lagged effect; race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860328954     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.665939     Document Type: Article

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