Unsustainable trajectories of domestic information technology use in Australia: Exploring diversity and the life course.
Current trajectories of the proliferation and use of information technology (IT) in households present an example of rapid socio‐technical change in an unsustainable direction. We document patterns in the proliferation, use and accumulation of IT in households in Australia, drawing on data from an o...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 184; no. 4; pp. 357 - 369 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2018
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