Facebook helps: a case study of cross-cultural social networking and social capital

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 732-749

  Jiang, Yifan ^a   de Bruijn, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross cultural social networking; cultural differences; Facebook; interpersonal relationships; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898859528     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.830636     Document Type: Article

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