'Technophobia': Parents' and children's fears about information and communication technologies and the transformation of culture and society

Children, Technology and Culture: The Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday Lives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 58-78

  Valentine, Gill ^a   Holloway, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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