Supporting the sense of locality with online communities

MindTrek - 12th International MindTrek Conference: Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 145-149

  Virtanen, Tytti ^a   Malinen, Sanna ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Community networks; Locality; Online communities; Sociability; Social networking

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FACEBOOK; FINNISH; HELSINKI; LOCAL ACTIVITY; LOCAL COMMUNITY; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SURVEYS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450253422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1457199.1457231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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