'No good for shovelling snow and carrying firewood': Social representations of computers and the internet by elderly Finnish non-users

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1198-1215

  Hakkarainen, Päivi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer refusal; elderly computer non users; elderly internet non users; internet refusal; social representations; technology metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867670102     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812442663     Document Type: Article

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