The Imagined Audience on Social Network Sites

Social Media and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Litt, Eden ^a   Hargittai, Eszter ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

imagined audience; privacy; sharing; social media; social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973128626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305116633482     Document Type: Article

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