Young people online: Gender and age influences

Kids Online: Opportunities and Risks for Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-106

  McQuillan, Helen ^a   d’Haenens, Leen ^b,c  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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