Tele-cocooning: Mobile texting and social scope

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 681-694

  Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Boase, Jeffrey ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

General trust; Mobile communication; Mobile texting; Social scope; Tele cocooning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

GENERAL TRUST; HEAVY USERS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE TEXTING; SOCIAL SCOPE; TELE-COCOONING; TEXTERS; TEXTING; TRUST MEASUREMENT;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84898026536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12064     Document Type: Article

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