How and why do college students use Wikipedia?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2189-2202

  Lim, Sook ^a  

^a ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; COLLEGE STUDENTS; EMOTIONAL STATE; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION UTILITY; KNOWLEDGE VALUE; POSITIVE EMOTIONS; PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES; RESPONSE RATE; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; STUDY SAMPLES; UNDERGRADUATE COURSES; WEB SURVEYS; WIKIPEDIA;

SURVEYS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70349934803     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21142     Document Type: Article

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