Empirical evidence of information overload constraining chat channel community interactions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 323-332

  Jones, Quentin ^a   Moldovan, Mihai ^a   Raban, Daphne ^b   Butler, Brian ^c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chat; Computer mediated communication; Information overload; IRC; Online communities; Synchronous communication

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INTERNET RELAY CHAT; MASS INTERACTION; NEWSGROUPS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; USER INTERACTION;

COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950800731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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