The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 325-344

  Kavanaugh, Andrea L ^b   Patterson, Scott J ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKSBURG ELECTRONIC VILLAGE; CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT; LONGITUDINAL DATA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; ON-LINE CONTENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL CAPITALS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84957712709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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