Facebook® and academic performance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1237-1245

  Kirschner, Paul A ^a   Karpinski, Aryn C ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Facebook; Grade point average; Social networking software

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DIGITAL NATIVES; FACEBOOK; GRADE POINT AVERAGE; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77956188137     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.03.024     Document Type: Article

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