Everyday favors: A case study of a local online gift exchange system

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-20

  Suhonen, Emmi ^a   Lampinen, Airi ^a   Cheshire, Coye ^b   Antin, Judd ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; gift economies; online community; social exchange

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; GIFT ECONOMIES; OFFLINE; ONLINE COMMUNITY; SOCIAL EXCHANGE; USER BEHAVIORS;

COMMUNICATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 78751683209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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