First-generation students and college: The role of Facebook networks as information sources

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 887-899

  Jeon, Grace Young Joo ^a   Ellison, Nicole B ^a   Hogan, Bernie ^b   Greenhow, Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College access; Facebook; First generation; Information seeking; Network visualization; Social media; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION USE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

COLLEGE ACCESS; FACEBOOK; FIRST-GENERATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84963606480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2818048.2820074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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