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Making a place for seniors on the Net: SeniorNet, senior identity, and the digital divide

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Volume 31 , Issue 3 (September 2001) table of contents

Pages: 15 - 21

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:0095-2737

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Mizuko Ito	National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Vicki L. O'Day	Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Annette Adler	Agilent Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Charlotte Linde	NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Elizabeth D. Mynatt	Georgia Institute of Techology, Altanta

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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