College students' self-positioning and mobile phone consumption

Mobile Communication and Greater China

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-175

  Song, Jing ^b   Yang, Shanhua ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

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EID: 84881295817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203120941     Document Type: Chapter

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