Differences in personal and professional tweets of scholars

Aslib Journal of Information Management

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 356-371

  Bowman, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordance; Altmetrics; Frame analysis; Impression management; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS;

AFFORDANCES; ALTMETRICS; FRAME ANALYSIS; IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84929677544     PISSN: 20503806     EISSN: 20503814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-12-2014-0180     Document Type: Article

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