The benefits of facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1143-1168

  Ellison, Nicole B ^a,b   Steinfield, Charles ^a,b   Lampe, Cliff ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 403 Communication Arts and Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGING SOCIAL CAPITALS; COLLEGE STUDENTS; FACEBOOK; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; SOCIAL CAPITALS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 34548285057     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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