Mobile phones, aged homes, and family relations in Hong Kong preliminary observations

New Technologies in Global Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 179-194

  Wong, William Wai Lim ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812773555_0008     Document Type: Chapter

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