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Age-old practices in the 'New World': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users

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Age-old practices in the 'New World': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. / Taylor, A.S.; Harper, R.
CHI '02 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2002. p. 439-446.

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Taylor, AS & Harper, R 2002, Age-old practices in the 'New World': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. in CHI '02 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1145/503376.503455

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Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2002). Age-old practices in the 'New World': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. In CHI '02 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 439-446). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/503376.503455

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Taylor AS, Harper R. Age-old practices in the 'New World': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. In CHI '02 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2002. p. 439-446 doi: 10.1145/503376.503455

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Taylor, A.S. ; Harper, R. / Age-old practices in the 'New World' : a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. CHI '02 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2002. pp. 439-446

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