A systematic review investigating the use of twitter and facebook in university-based healthcare education

Health Education

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 347-366

  Smith, Toby ^a   Lambert, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Education; Information technology; Networking; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926291098     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/HE-07-2013-0030     Document Type: Article

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