Thinking of You: Vernacular Affordance in the Context of the Microsocial Relationship App, Couple

Social Media and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  McVeigh Schultz, Joshua ^a   Baym, Nancy K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

affordance; Couple; interpersonal communication; materiality; microsocial; vernacular

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028721421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115604649     Document Type: Article

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