An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 71-80

  Raban, Daphne R ^a   Moldovan, Mihai ^b   Jones, Quentin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chat; Computer mediated communication; Critical mass; IRC; Online community system design; Synchronous communication

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL MASS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LIFE EXPECTANCIES; LIFE SPAN; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; POPULATION HETEROGENEITY; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; USER ACTIVITY;

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

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950878259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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