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New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 753-770

  Goggin, Gerard ^a   Spurgeon, Christina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interactivity; Mobile internet; Mobile messaging; Mobile phones; Premium mobile services; Premium rate telecommunications; SMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348827343     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807080340     Document Type: Article

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