Social media gerontology: Understanding social media usage among a unique and expanding community of users

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1755-1764

  Hutto, Clayton ^a   Bell, Caroline ^a  

^a GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

BROADCAST COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES; FACEBOOK; OLDER ADULTS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902271209     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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