Selective Posting: Willingness to post a message online

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-227

  Woong Yun, Gi ^a   Park, Sung Yeon ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY;

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FACTORIAL DESIGN; ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUMS; ONLINE FORUMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79951842337     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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