Content creation on the Internet: a social cognitive perspective on the participation divide

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 696-716

  Hoffmann, Christian Pieter ^a   Lutz, Christoph ^a   Meckel, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

content creation; digital divide; online participation; participation divide; social cognitive theory; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928767928     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.991343     Document Type: Article

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