Gender differences in using social networks

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-139

  Mazman, S Güzin ^a   Usluel, Yasemin Koçak ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Facebook; Gender differences; Social networks; Usage purposes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955142835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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