I – Facebook – World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use

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I – Facebook – World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use. / Schwartz, Sander Andreas; Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang.

9th International Conference on Social Media & Society: Networked Influence and Virality - Revisited, Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 370-374.

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Harvard

Schwartz, SA & Mahnke, MS 2018, I – Facebook – World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use. in 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society: Networked Influence and Virality - Revisited, Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 370-374. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217947

APA

Schwartz, S. A., & Mahnke, M. S. (2018). I – Facebook – World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use. In 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society: Networked Influence and Virality - Revisited, Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018 (pp. 370-374). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217947

Vancouver

Schwartz SA, Mahnke MS. I – Facebook – World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use. In 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society: Networked Influence and Virality - Revisited, Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. p. 370-374 https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217947

Author

Schwartz, Sander Andreas ; Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang. / I – Facebook – World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use. 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society: Networked Influence and Virality - Revisited, Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. pp. 370-374

Bibtex

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