Facebook in a standard college class: An alternative conduit for promoting teacher-student interaction

American Communication Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-52

  Ha, Jaesik ^a   Shin, Dong Hee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Classroom; E mail; Facebook; Learning; Social network sites; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903789931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15325865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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