The civic-social media disconnect: exploring perceptions of social media for engagement in the daily life of college students

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1059-1071

  Mihailidis, Paul ^a  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

civic engagement; e democracy; e learning; media studies; social media; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905109851     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.877054     Document Type: Article

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