WHO CREATES CONTENT?: Stratification and content creation on the Internet

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 590-612

  Blank, Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

content creation; content types; digital divide; elites; mobility; oxford Internet survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876320224     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.777758     Document Type: Article

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