The impact of social media usage on the cognitive social capital of university students

Informing Science

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-31

  Petersen, C ^a,b   Johnston, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Effcomm   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bonding social capital; Bridging social capital; Cognitive social capital; Facebook; Maintained social capital; Social network systems (SNS); Twitter; University students; Usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930348632     PISSN: 15479684     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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