Communities, cultural capital, and the digital divide

Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 107-130

  Rojas, Viviana ^a   Straubhaar, Joseph ^b   Roychowdhury, Debasmita ^b   Okur, Ozlem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410609663     Document Type: Chapter

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