Commercial markets as communication markets: Uncertainty reduction through mediated information exchange in online auctions

New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 401-423

  Flanagin, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMC; Computer mediated communication; Internet; New technologies; Online auctions; Uncertainty reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248582958     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807076966     Document Type: Article

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