Encouraging participation in virtual communities

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-73

  Koh, Joon ^a   Kim, Young Gul ^b   Butler, Brian ^c   Bock, Gee Woo ^d  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SHARING; NEWS; STIMULATION DRIVERS;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33846684163     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1216016.1216023     Document Type: Article

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