Social capital and its relationship with Universiti Putra Malaysia Undergraduates' facebook usages

Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 421-434

  Hamsan, Hanina H ^a   Kumar, Matthew Naveen ^a   Shahrimin, Mohamad Ibrani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Correlational studies; Facebook; Social Capital; Social network service; Undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890496275     PISSN: 01287702     EISSN: 22318534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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