Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 873-892

  Ellison, Nicole B ^a   Steinfield, Charles ^a   Lampe, Cliff ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; Facebook; social capital; social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958222950     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810385389     Document Type: Article

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