Developing metrics to characterize Flickr groups

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 493-506

  Cox, Andrew ^a   Clough, Paul ^a   Siersdorfer, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; GROUP CREATION; GROUP FORMATIONS; GROUP MEMBERS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PHOTO SHARING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

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EID: 79951671437     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21483     Document Type: Article

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