The impact of social types within information communities: Findings from technical newsgroups

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Turner, Tammara Combs ^a   Fisher, Karen E ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION COMMUNITIES FRAMEWORK; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMATION FLOWS; TECHNICAL NEWSGROUPS;

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33749587600     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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