Trust, friendship, and expertise: The use of email, mobile dialogues, and SMS to develop and sustain social relations in a distributed work group

The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 159-190

  Julsrud, Tom Erik ^a,b   Bakke, John Willy ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315134499-8     Document Type: Chapter

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