Integration of Internet Use with Public Spaces: College Students’ Use of the Wireless Internet and Offline Socializing
Vol.4,No.2(2010)
wireless Internet; social interactions; face-to-face relationship; Internet use in public spaces
Namsu Park
Namsu Park is lecturer of telecommunication at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea. She received her PhD in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interest is in the area of new media and society. Her most recent research examines social media use and social capital and in particular, the extent to which social media use and sociability contributes to people’s social capital.
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