Growing closer on facebook: Changes in tie strength through social network site use

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4187-4196

  Burke, Moira ^a   Kraut, Robert ^b  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Families; Friendship; Relational closeness; Social network sites; Social relationships; Tie strength

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

FACEBOOK; FAMILIES; FRIENDSHIP; RELATIONAL CLOSENESS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TIE STRENGTHS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900389960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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