Self-Disclosure Characteristics and Motivations in Social Media: Extending the Functional Model to Multiple Social Network Sites

Human Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 480-500

  Choi, Yoon Hyung ^a   Bazarova, Natalya N ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Communication Privacy Management Theory; Computer Mediated Communication; Facebook; Functional Model of Self Disclosure; Self Disclosure; Social Network Sites; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941736714     PISSN: 03603989     EISSN: 14682958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hcre.12053     Document Type: Article

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