Unrealized potential: Exploring the digital disability divide

Poetics

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-28

  Dobransky, Kerry ^a   Hargittai, Eszter ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Digital divide; Digital inequality; Disability; Disability culture; Impairment; Internet skills; Online engagement; Online participation; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991267394     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2016.08.003     Document Type: Article

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