The digital divide shifts to differences in usage

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 507-526

  van Deursen, Alexander J A M ^a   van Dijk, Jan A G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital divide; digital inequality; knowledge gap; online activities; usage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898868534     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813487959     Document Type: Article

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