Are we all equally at home socializing online? Cyberasociality and evidence for an unequal distribution of disdain for digitally-mediated sociality

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 486-502

  Tufekci, Zeynep ^a   Brashears, Matthew E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Internet use; isolation; new media; Social media; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897423016     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.891634     Document Type: Article

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