Communicative affordances of mobile media: Portability, availability, locatability, and multimediality

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1229-1246

  Schrock, Andrew Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Computer mediated communication; Materialities; Mobile communication; Mobile media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011581606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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