Predictors of mobile sexting among teens: Toward a new explanatory framework

Mobile Media and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-39

  Campbell, Scott W ^a   Park, Yong Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; adolescents; cell phone; mobile communication; mobile phone; sexting; social emancipation; teens; text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002765101     PISSN: 20501579     EISSN: 20501587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2050157913502645     Document Type: Article

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