Facebook makes the heart grow fonder: Relationship maintenance strategies among geographically dispersed and communication-restricted connections

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 842-853

  Vitak, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Facebook; Interpersonal communication; Relationship maintenance; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; FACEBOOK; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84898992721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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