Brokering new technologies: The role of children in their parents’ usage of the internet

New Media and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 483-500

  Correa, Teresa ^a   Straubhaar, Joseph D ^b   Chen, Wenhong ^b   Spence, Jeremiah ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; diffusion; digital media; families; internet; parents; socialization; survey; technology; transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924993366     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813506975     Document Type: Article

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