A conceptual and operational definition of 'social role' in online community

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gleave, Eric ^a   Welser, Howard T ^b   Lento, Thomas M ^c   Smith, Marc A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FACEBOOK   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS; SOCIAL LIVES; TWO DOMAINS; USER TYPES; WIKIPEDIA;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 63349084792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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