Going to college and staying connected: Communication between college freshmen and their parents

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 789-798

  Smith, Madeline E ^a   Nguyen, Duyen T ^b   Lai, Charles ^a   Leshed, Gilly ^b   Baumer, Eric P S ^a,b  

^a Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

cmc; college students; communication; domestic; parents

Indexed keywords

CMC; COLLEGE STUDENTS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COMMUNICATION TOOLS; DOMESTIC; FIRST YEAR STUDENTS; FIRST-YEAR; PARENTS; SOCIAL IMPLICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84863247957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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