Exploring individual communication power in the blogosphere

Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 541-561

  Ko, Hsiu Chia ^a   Yin, Chun Po ^b   Kuo, Feng Yang ^c  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Data Processing   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Communication; Social networks; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349113633     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240810912774     Document Type: Article

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