'Story of one's life and a tree of friends'-understanding millennials' information behaviour in social networks

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 489-497

  Read, Pam ^a   Shah, Chirag ^a   S O'Brien, Lupita ^a   Woolcott, Jaqueline ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; millennials; social media

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; HIGH SCHOOL; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MILLENNIALS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL GROUPS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL SPACES; SOCIAL VALUES; TECHNOLOGY IMPACT; WORK SUPPORT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84867294721     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551512453381     Document Type: Review

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