The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gilbert, Eric (author), Karahalios, Karrie (author), and Sandvig, Christian (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    URL:
    http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1357304
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06699
    Subject Term:
    adoption, gender, media use, rural-urban differences, social factors, visual communication, information technology, and social media
    Notes:
    Paper in proceedings of CHI 2008, Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008. 10 pages., Analysis among 2,000 rural and 2,000 urban MySpace users throughout the U.S. Found rural and urban people use social media very differently and traced the nature of those differences.

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