Dimensions of Internet use: Amount, variety, and types

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 417-435

  Blank, Grant ^a   Groselj, Darja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activity types; Internet use; Oxford Internet Survey; principal components analysis; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897430239     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.889189     Document Type: Article

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