Online social sites as virtual parks: An investigation into leisure online and offline

Information Society

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-120

  Arora, Payal ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyberspace; Leisure; Metaphor; Parks; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952430151     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2011.548702     Document Type: Article

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