A social network study of the growth of community among distance learners

Information Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-28

  Haythornthwaite, Caroline ^a  

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

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