Email, Gender, and Personal Relationships

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 372-403

  Boneva, Bonka ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS; QUALITATIVE DATA;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84957610357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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