Cooperation and groupness: Community formation in small online collaborative groups

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 207-216

  Goggins, Sean P ^a   Laffey, James ^a   Tsai, I Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities; Communities of practice; Groups; Human capital; Networks of practice; Social capital; Teams

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE GROUPS; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY; COOPERATIVE WORKS; DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; GENERAL PATTERNS; GROUP FORMATIONS; GROUP MEMBERS; HUMAN CAPITALS; NETWORKS OF PRACTICES; ON-LINE TOOLS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SENSE OF COMMUNITY; SMALL GROUPS; SOCIAL CAPITALS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950514409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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