Three fallacies of digital footprints

Big Data and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Lewis, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computational social science; Digital footprints; Facebook; online dating; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991386012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951715602496     Document Type: Note

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