Collaboration online: The example of Distributed Computing

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Holohan, Anne ^a   Garg, Anurag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SURVEYS;

COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTING PROGRAMMES; COMPUTING RESOURCE; NEW FORMS; ON-LINE COLLABORATIONS; ONLINE FORUMS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 24144483095     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00279.x     Document Type: Review

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