Mind the skills gap: the role of Internet know-how and gender in differentiated contributions to Wikipedia

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 424-442

  Hargittai, Eszter ^a   Shaw, Aaron ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

digital inequality; gender; Internet skills; participation; peer production; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920163032     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711     Document Type: Article

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