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Online Social Sites as Virtual Parks: An Investigation into Leisure Online and Offline

Payal Arora Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Pages 113-120 | Received 20 Jan 2010, Accepted 07 Feb 2010, Published online: 04 Mar 2011

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Ching-Hua Ho. (2023) Online communities, identity, and leisure: Why online communities mean so much to married women with young children. Journal of Leisure Research 54:5, pages 560-580.
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