A Literacy Approach to the Digital Divide
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ly (Greenfield, 1972; Luria, 1976). The impugned cognitive benefits of literacy have proven very difficult for researchers to investigate. The problem is that literacy is almost always confounded with other variables, and, particularly, with schooling. For the most part, those who
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تاریخ انتشار 2005