Computer time.
The 1995 Times-Mirror Survey and the 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts shed new light on the impact that computers have on daily activities and who selects to spend free time with the home computer. The surveys show that people with home computers use them for more than five hours a w...
| Published in: | American Demographics Vol. 20; no. 8; pp. 18 - 24 |
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Crain Communications Inc. (MI)
August 1998
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