The friendship assemblage: Investigating programmed sociality on Facebook

Television and New Media

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 479-493

  Bucher, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

critical media studies; Facebook; friendship; new media theory; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885613653     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: 15528316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476412452800     Document Type: Article

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