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“Anyone free to chat?” Using technological features to elicit quality support online

This study examines how support seekers can integrate verbal and nonverbal cues in social network sites (SNSs) to elicit quality support from others. Building from sensitive interaction systems theory and verbal person centeredness (VPC), participants (N = 579) evaluated a SNS profile that contained...

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Published in:Communication monographs 2018-04, Vol.85 (2), p.203-223
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