The impact of mobile tablet devices on human information behaviour

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 622-639

  Burford, Sally ^a   Park, Sora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human information behaviour; Mobile tablet device; Netnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925157128     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-09-2012-0123     Document Type: Article

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