The social affordances of the internet for networked individualism

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Wellman, Barry ^a   Quan Haase, Anabel ^a   Boase, Jeffrey ^a   Chen, Wenhong ^a   Hampton, Keith ^b   De Diaz, Isabel Isla ^c,e   Miyata, Kakuko ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UOC   (Spain)

^f MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; INTERNET TRANSFORMS COMMUNITY; NETWORKED INDIVIDUALISM; SOCIAL AFFORDANCES;

INTERNET;

EID: 2942737437     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00216.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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