Leaving MySpace, joining Facebook: Growing up on social network sites

Continuum

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 385-398

  Robards, Brady ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84861592197     PISSN: 10304312     EISSN: 14693666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2012.665836     Document Type: Article

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