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Publication details [#55478]

Ledbetter, Andrew M., Joseph P. Mazer and Jocelyn M. DeGroot. 2011. Attitudes Toward Online Social Connection and Self-Disclosure as Predictors of Facebook Communication and Relational Closeness. Communication Research 38 (1) : 27–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | internet | self-presentation | social network | social relationship

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores a theoretical model of communicative conduct with specific Facebook friends, so that positions towards online self-disclosure and social connection, foretell Facebook communication rate and, in turn, relational nearness.