Predictors of Internet Use

Summary

Analysis of audience uses of the Internet suggested distinctions between instrumental and ritualized Internet use, as well as Internet use serving as a functional alternative to face-to-face interaction.

Keywords

The Internet, Perspective (graphical), Psychology, Face (sociological concept), Multivariate analysis

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