Left to Their Own Devices: College Students' "Guilty Pleasure" Media Use and Time Management

Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 561-577

  Panek, Elliot ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

college students; Facebook; Internet; self control; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899450791     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650213499657     Document Type: Article

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