Preliminary Evidence of Gender Differentiated Patterns of Mobile Communication Among Teenagers.

The mobile phone has become an integral means of communication in our everyday life. However, some mobile media scholars advocate that the adoption of the device is not a uniform social fact as differentiated gender patterns appear in mobile communication. The aim of the study is to examine divergen...

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Publicado en:International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 343 - 357
Autor principal: Kalogeraki, Stefania
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Common Ground Research Networks 2011
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        Cell phones & teenagers
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