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Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp. / O'Hara, K.; Massimi, M.; Harper, R. et al.
CSCW '14 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing. New York: ACM, 2014. p. 1131-1143.

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O'Hara, K, Massimi, M, Harper, R, Rubens, S & Morris, J 2014, Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp. in CSCW '14 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing. ACM, New York, pp. 1131-1143. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531679

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O'Hara, K., Massimi, M., Harper, R., Rubens, S., & Morris, J. (2014). Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp. In CSCW '14 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (pp. 1131-1143). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531679

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O'Hara K, Massimi M, Harper R, Rubens S, Morris J. Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp. In CSCW '14 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing. New York: ACM. 2014. p. 1131-1143 doi: 10.1145/2531602.2531679

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O'Hara, K. ; Massimi, M. ; Harper, R. et al. / Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp. CSCW '14 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing. New York : ACM, 2014. pp. 1131-1143

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