Media appropriateness: Effects of experience on communication media choice

Decision Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 877-910

  King, Ruth C ^a   Xia, Weidong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging Information Technologies; Media Choice; Telecommunications; User Learning Experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031320223     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1997.tb01335.x     Document Type: Article

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