Getting a second opinion: Social capital, digital inequalities, and health information repertoires

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2552-2563

  Chen, Wenhong ^a   Lee, Kye Hyoung ^a   Straubhaar, Joseph D ^a   Spence, Jeremiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

information channels; information seeking

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY; DIGITAL INEQUALITIES; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION CHANNELS; INFORMATION SEEKING; SECOND OPINIONS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84938510834     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23130     Document Type: Article

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