When online communities become self-aware

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gazan, Rich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL POINTS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SOCIAL SUPPORTS;

EQUATIONS OF STATE;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650760286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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