Seekers, sloths and social reference: Homework questions submitted to a question-answering community

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-248

  Gazan, R ^a  

^a University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COMMUNITY STANDARDS; ONLINE COMMUNITY MEMBERS; QUESTION-ANSWERING COMMUNITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 36949012975     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560701711917     Document Type: Article

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