Procedures for analyses of online communities

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Rosen, Devan ^a   Woelfel, Joseph ^b   Krikorian, Dean ^a   Barnett, George A ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE CONFERENCING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTIUSER DUNGEONS (MUD); ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SEMANTIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042551147     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00219.x     Document Type: Article

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