Why do we tag photographs on Facebook? Proposing a new gratifications scale

New Media and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 502-521

  Dhir, Amandeep ^a,b   Chen, Gina M ^c   Chen, Sufen ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Facebook; photo tagging; social media; uses and gratifications theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018995582     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444815611062     Document Type: Article

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