On-line smiles: Does gender make a difference in the use of graphic accents?

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Witmer, Diane F ^a   Katzman, Sandra Lee ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Interac Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CYBERNETICS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COLLABORATION; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC); ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT; GRAPHIC ACCENTS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0003218083     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.1997.tb00192.x     Document Type: Review

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