Older adults and political participation on the Internet: a cross-cultural comparison of the USA and China.
Older adults are not only lagging behind in terms of physical access to the Internet but also in engaging in political activities in the online environment. The findings from two independent studies bridging the USA and China suggest that older adults, even when they have access to the Internet, hav...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2008
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