The information ecology of social media and online communities

AI Magazine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 77-92

  Finin, Tim ^a   Joshi, Anupam ^a   Kolari, Pranam ^b   Java, Akshay ^a   Kale, Anubhav ^c   Karandikar, Amit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Yahoo Search Sciences ^*

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

BUILDING SYSTEMS; COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST; INFORMATION ECOLOGY; NETWORKED DATUM; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE FORUMS; SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEMS; TRUST RELATIONSHIP;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 53749089032     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2158     Document Type: Article

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