An exploration of concepts of community through a case study of UK university web production

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-345

  Cox, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Occupational community; Online community; Professions; Social networks; Web site design

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WEB SERVICES;

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; OCCUPATIONAL COMMUNITY; ONLINE COMMUNITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB SITE DESIGN;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 43449132147     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507084354     Document Type: Article

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