Accessing social support and overcoming judgment on social media among parents of children with special needs

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 22-31

  Ammari, Tawfiq ^a   Morris, Meredith Ringel ^b   Schoenebeck, Sarita Yardi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; FACEBOOK PAGES; LIFE SPAN; MIXED METHOD; OFFLINE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPECIAL NEEDS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909966947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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