Mobile phones and the inexorable advance of multimodal connectedness

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-90

  Schroeder, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Everyday life; Internet; Mobile phones; Sweden; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649241765     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809355114     Document Type: Article

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