Do college students use facebook to communicate about alcohol? an analysis of student profile pages

Cyberpsychology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Fournier, Angela K ^a   Clarke, Steven W ^b  

^a BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; College drinking norms; Facebook; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855606431     PISSN: 18027962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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