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Original Articles

Are frequent users of social network sites good information evaluators? An investigation of adolescents’ sourcing abilities (¿Son los usuarios frecuentes de las redes sociales evaluadores competentes? Un estudio de las habilidades de los adolescentes para identificar, evaluar y hacer uso de las fuentes)

Pages 101-138 | Received 14 Oct 2018, Accepted 06 Nov 2019, Published online: 18 Dec 2019

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