The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 74-113

  Chen, Wenhong ^a   Boase, Jeffrey ^a   Wellman, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIGITAL DIVIDE; FACE TO FACE; INTERNET USERS; NORTH AMERICAN; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; TELEPHONE CONTACT;

EID: 84957680128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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