Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data

First Monday

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Pasek, Josh ^a   More, Eian ^b   Hargittai, Eszter ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69949165788     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v14i5.2498     Document Type: Article

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