Students’ Facebook ‘friends’: Public and private spheres

Journal of Youth Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-627

  West, Anne ^a   Lewis, Jane ^a   Currie, Peter ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Friends; Parents; Social networking sites; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950761707     PISSN: 13676261     EISSN: 14699680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13676260902960752     Document Type: Article

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