How access gaps interact and shape digital divide: A cognitive investigation

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 330-340

  Ghobadi, Shahla ^a   Ghobadi, Zahra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b IKI University   (Iran)

Author keywords

access; access gaps; digital divide; Internet; qualitative methodology; revealed causal mapping

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MAPPING;

ACCESS; ACCESS GAPS; CAUSAL MAPPING; DIGITAL DIVIDE; QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84924524982     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2013.833650     Document Type: Article

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