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A Window on the Wider World? Rural Children's Use of Information and Communication Technologies.
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Valentine, Gill; Holloway, Sarah L. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2001
A survey and in-depth interviews in an isolated British coastal town examined adolescents' computer and Internet use at home and in school. Adults had ambitious, future-oriented notions about how such technologies would expand children's educational opportunities and social and spatial horizons; in contrast, adolescents actually used technology in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents