Making friends in cyberspace

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Parks, Malcolm R ^a   Floyd, Kory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULLETIN BOARDS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER NETWORKS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CYBERSPACE;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0002002934     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.1996.tb00176.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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