The place of health information and socio-emotional support in social questioning and answering

Information Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Worrall, Adam ^a   Oh, Sanghee ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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