The network in the garden: An empirical analysis of social media in rural life

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1603-1612

  Gilbert, Eric ^a   Karahalios, Karrie ^a   Sandvig, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Rural; Social media; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DIGITAL DIVIDE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENDER DISTRIBUTIONS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; RURAL; RURAL COMMUNITIES; RURAL LIVES; RURAL PEOPLES; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 57649225687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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