Researching Social Media as if the Social Mattered

Social Media and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Couldry, Nick ^a   van Dijck, José ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

personal data; social construction; the social; value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996479258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115604174     Document Type: Article

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