Disclosure decisions in existing relationships online: Exploring motivations for CMC channel choice

Interpersonal Relations and Social Patterns in Communication Technologies: Discourse Norms, Language Structures and Cultural Variables

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 48-75

  Greene, Kathryn ^a   Magsamen Conrad, Kate ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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