Tech talk: An investigation of blogging in technology innovation discourse

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-60

  Davidson, Elizabeth ^a   Vaast, Emmanuelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; Blogging; Discourse; Identity; Technology innovation; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLOGGERS; BLOGGING; BUSINESS CONTEXTS; DISCOURSE; IDENTITY; KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CONTEXT; TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEBLOGS;

BLOGS;

EID: 62349116372     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2008.2012285     Document Type: Article

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