Social Networking Sites in Thailand: Motives and predictors of university students' behaviours

International Journal of Innovation and Learning

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 427-444

  Dumrongsiri, Nuchada ^a   Pornsakulvanich, Vikanda ^a  

^a ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Behaviours; Blogs; Innovation; Learning; Motivation; Motives; Online communities; SNSs; Social networking sites; Thailand

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

THAILAND;

EID: 77957769058     PISSN: 14718197     EISSN: 17408016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2010.035751     Document Type: Article

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