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EXPLAINING COMMUNICATION DISPLACEMENT AND LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL CHANGE IN CORE NETWORKS

A cross-national comparison of why bigger is not better and less can mean more

Keith N. Hampton Rutgers, School of Communication and Information, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Richard Ling IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhagen, DK-2300, Denmark E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 561-589 | Received 03 Oct 2012, Accepted 14 Feb 2013, Published online: 20 Mar 2013

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