Millennial engineers: Digital media and information ecology of engineering students

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue , 2014, Pages 286-301

  Johri, Aditya ^a   Teo, Hon Jie ^a   Lo, Jenny ^a   Dufour, Monique ^a   Schram, Asta ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; First year engineering students; Media and information ecology; Social networking; Survey study; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES; FACEBOOK; FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ECOLOGY; INFORMATION SEEKING; PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TWITTER;

DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; ENGINEERS; INFORMATION USE; MOBILE DEVICES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84900672331     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.048     Document Type: Article

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