Why people use social networking sites

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5621 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 143-152

  Brandtzæg, Petter Bae ^a   Heim, Jan ^a  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Friends; Social networking sites; User motivation; User participation

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; USER MOTIVATION; USER PARTICIPATION;

MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 76649119444     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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