Contacts and contexts

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 534-538

  Chua, Vincent ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Contact use; Institutions; Unanticipated gains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872403382     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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