Finding community in the comments: The role of reader and blogger responses in a weblog community of practice

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-283

  Dennen, Vanessa P ^a   Pashnyak, Tatyana G ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; Comments; Community of practice; Content analysis

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

BLOG; BLOGGERS; COMMENTS; COMMUNAL SHARING; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES;

BLOGS;

EID: 78651538391     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2008.019189     Document Type: Article

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