The diverging effects of social network sites on receiving Job Information for students and professionals

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 39-53

  Rienties, Bart ^a   Tempelaar, Dirk ^a   Pinckaers, Miriam ^b   Giesbers, Bas ^a   Lichel, Linda ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Job Openings; SNS in Education; Social Network Sites (SNS); Strength of Weak Ties Hypothesis; Structural Holes Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864530394     PISSN: 19416253     EISSN: 19416261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jskd.2010100103     Document Type: Article

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