Giving up twitter for lent: How and why we take breaks from social media

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 773-782

  Schoenebeck, Sarita Yardi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaks; Internet; Media refusal; Self control; Social media; Twitter; Willpower

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERNET;

BREAKS; MEDIA REFUSAL; SELF-CONTROL; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; WILLPOWER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900433243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2556983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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