Media use in long-distance friendships

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 694-713

  Utz, Sonja ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Interpersonal relationships; Media use

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448979111     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701658046     Document Type: Article

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