Work, friendship, and media use for information exchange in a networked organization

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1101-1114

  Haythornthwaite, Caroline ^a   Wellman, Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TELECONFERENCING; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL NETWORK APPROACH;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 0032187423     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1998)49:12<1101::aid-asi6>3.0.co;2-z     Document Type: Article

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