Dietary blogs as sites of informational and emotional support;Los blogs dietéticos como sitios de ayuda informativa y emocional

Information Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Savolainen, Reijo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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