Face-to-face and electronic communications in maintaining social networks: The influence of geographical and relational distance and of information content

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 965-983

  Tillema, Taede ^a   Dijst, Martin ^b   Schwanen, Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electronic communication; face to face communication; geographical and relational distance; social network; the Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957060287     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809353011     Document Type: Article

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