Gen X and Y's attitudes on using social media platforms for opinion sharing

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3853-3858

  Jansen, Bernard J ^a   Sobel, Kate ^b   Cook, Geoff ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Facebook; Information sharing; MySpace; myYearbook; Social media; Social networking; Twitter

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; INFORMATION SHARING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKING; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SURVEYS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77953101501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1754068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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