Mind your Ps and Qs: The impact of politeness and rudeness in online communities

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 281-284

  Burke, Moira ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community responsiveness; Computer mediated communication; Linguistic politeness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSIVENESS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DETECTION TOOLS; LINGUISTIC POLITENESS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MESSAGE LENGTH; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; POLITICAL GROUPS;

GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77950475184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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