Impacts of short message service texting on university students in Malaysia

Asian Social Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-110

  Tse, Andrew Yau Hau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Mobile phones; SMS texting; Verbal and non verbal communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857598831     PISSN: 19112017     EISSN: 19112025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v8n1p107     Document Type: Article

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