Digital skills and social media use: how Internet skills are related to different types of Facebook use among ‘digital natives’

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1095-1107

  Correa, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

digital divide; digital inequality; digital natives; Digital skills; Facebook; social media; survey; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941694876     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1084023     Document Type: Article

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