A bosom buddy afar brings a distant land near: Are bloggers a global community?

Proceedings of the 2nd Communities and Technologies Conference, C and T 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 171-190

  Su, Norman Makoto ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Mark, Gloria ^a   Aiyelokun, Tosin ^a   Nakano, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

BLOGGING COMMUNITIES; INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET RELAY CHAT; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SENSE OF COMMUNITY; SHARING KNOWLEDGE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WESTERN COUNTRIES;

BLOGS;

EID: 33847273619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3591-8_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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