Strategies for the suspension and prevention of connection: Rendering disconnection as socioeconomic lubricant with Facebook

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1169-1184

  Light, Ben ^a   Cassidy, Elija ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

connection; disconnection; facebook; social media; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908141207     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814544002     Document Type: Article

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