Uses and gratification theory - Why adolescents use facebook?

Medijska Istrazivanja

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 85-110

  Tanta, Ivan ^a   Mihovilović, Maja ^a   Sablić, Zrinka ^b  

^a University of Applied Sciences VERN   (Croatia)

^b JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Facebook; Social media; Social network sites; Uses and gratification theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921796179     PISSN: 13306928     EISSN: 18466605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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