Online social networking skills: The social affordances approach to digital inequality

First Monday

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hsieh, Yuli Patrick ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84863883610     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v17i4.3893     Document Type: Article

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