The formation of social rules for digital interactions

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1111-1131

  Hardey, Mariann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EDating; Gender; Identity; Interaction; Newsgroup; Rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149213864     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802109048     Document Type: Article

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