Sociability and social interaction on social networking websites

Library Review

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 438-450

  Keenan, Andrew ^a   Shiri, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Internet; Social interaction; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049127949     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530910969794     Document Type: Article

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