One place to look is research in Library and Information Science on public libraries. One major service that public libraries serve is to provide internet access to homeless people, and I'm pretty sure there have been some studies on this topic. Unfortunately, I don't know of any off-hand which I can direct you to. Ingbert On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I suspect there is a temporary negative correlation. Internet use and access and experience suggest less risk for homelessness. But perhaps homelessness is too closely tied to income.
On 18-Feb-09, at 5:29 PM, Laszlo Ropolyi wrote:
Dear all,
I am looking for some ideas/papers/references about a very specific social context of the Internet. Is there any possible link between the Internet and homelessness?
Thanks in advance for any comment.
Laszlo
Laszlo Ropolyi Dept. History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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