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Why Internet use? A quantitative examination of the role of everyday life and Internet policy and regulation

Panayiota Tsatsou

Technology in Society, Volume: 33, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 73 - 83

Swansea University Author: Panayiota Tsatsou

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.techsoc.2011.03.016

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Regardless of the technological advances achieved so far and the often techno-deterministic approaches to the information society, inequalities in the access to, distribution and use of ICTs such as the Internet still highlight the importance of digital divides. The complex nature and continuing imp...

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Published in: Technology in Society
Published: Elsevier 2011
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