Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity
- ISBN-10
- 0199812950
- ISBN-13
- 9780199812950
- Series
- Digital Cities
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, William Franko
Description
This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.
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