The interplay between digital and social networks

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-252

  Agarwal, Ritu ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a   Kraut, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital networks; Interplay; Online communities; Open source; Social networks; Technology mediation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

DIGITAL NETWORKS; INTERPLAY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCES; TECHNOLOGY MEDIATIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 61349163737     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0200     Document Type: Review

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