Examining social media use among older adults

HT 2013 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 158-163

  Bell, Caroline ^a   Fausset, Cara ^a   Farmer, Sarah ^a   Nguyen, Julie ^a   Harley, Linda ^a   Fain, W Bradley ^a  

^a GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Loneliness; Older adults; Social connectedness; Social media; Social satisfaction; User behavior

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; LONELINESS; OLDER ADULTS; SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SATISFACTION; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84879745755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2481492.2481509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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