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Digital Divides revisited: What is new about divides and their research?

Panayiota Tsatsou

Media, Culture and Society, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 317 - 331

Swansea University Author: Panayiota Tsatsou

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0163443710393865

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This article critically reviews well-established and recent trends in digital divides literature and research, bringing up new elements of divides and the related research and making recommendations about future research. First, it disentangles some aspects of the puzzling nature and ongoing importa...

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Published: London Sage 2011
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