'Personal digital assistants' -Patterns of user gratifications

Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 457-473

  Trepte, Sabine ^a   Ranné, Nabil ^a   Becker, Miriam ^a  

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Author keywords

Adoption; New media; Personal Digital Assistant (PDA); Uses and gratifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649096045     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/comm.2003.029     Document Type: Article

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