Jack of all trades, master of ... Some?: Multitasking in digital consumers

The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 367-377

  Chinchanachokchai, Sydney ^a   Duff, Brittany R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent; Multitasking; Sequential

Indexed keywords

EID: 85072963865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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