An empirical investigation of attitude towards location-aware social network service

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-70

  Kofod Petersen, Anders ^a   Gransæther, Per Anton ^a   John Krogstie, ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

location aware; mobile communications; social networks; user attitude towards usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952736599     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: 17415217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijmc.2010.030520     Document Type: Article

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