Unwillingness-to-communicate and college students' motives in SMS mobile messaging

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-129

  Leung, Louis ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Instant messaging; SMS; Unwillingness to communicate

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; STUDENTS;

INSTANT MESSAGING; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS); UNWILLINGNESS-TO-COMMUNICATE;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 33846217494     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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