Membership claims and requests: Conversation-level newcomer socialization strategies in online groups

Small Group Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-40

  Burke, Moira ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Joyce, Elisabeth ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Newcomer socialization; Online communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049086712     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496409351936     Document Type: Article

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