Newsgroup crowds and authorlines: Visualizing the activity of individuals in conversational cyberspaces

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 1763-1772

  Viégas, Fernanda B ^a   Smith, Marc ^b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WEB BROWSERS;

CYBERSPACES; MESSAGES; NEWSGROUP CROWDS; TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 12344285896     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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