Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 496-519

  Davidson, Theresa ^a   Sooryamoorthy, R ^b   Shrum, Wesley ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Loyola Coll Social Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL INEQUALITIES; INTERNET DIFFUSION; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84957662549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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