Evolving Mobile Media: Uses and Conceptualizations of the Mobile Internet

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 491-507

  Humphreys, Lee ^a   Von Pape, Thilo ^b   Karnowski, Veronika ^c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appropriation; Cross cultural; Media use; Mobile internet; Mobile phones; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATION; CROSS-CULTURAL; CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; INTERNET USERS; MEDIA USE; MOBILE INTERNET; MOBILE MEDIA; QUALITATIVE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84880420199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12019     Document Type: Article

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