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Did distance matter before the Internet?
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mok, D., & Wellman, B.
- Venue
- Social Networks
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 430-461
- ISSN
- 0378-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W182519426
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 63
- FWCI
- 50.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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