Keeping in touch by technology: Maintaining friendships after a residential move

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 807-816

  Shklovski, Irina ^a   Kraut, Robert ^b   Cummings, Jonathon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMC; Communication; Friendship; Mobility; Social relationships

Indexed keywords

CMC; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; FRIENDSHIP; MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILITY; NATURAL EXPERIMENTS; PHONE CALLS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL SUPPORTS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 57649202092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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