Does it speak to me? Visual aesthetics and the digital divide.
New media research suggests a significant disconnect between the life experience of minorities and the content, information and services they find available with an Internet experience. The HomeNetToo project was a three-year study that focused on understanding how communities of people on the 'othe...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 36 - 52 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2004
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