Coordinating the ordinary: Social information uses of Facebook by adults

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 340-347

  Wohn, Donghee Yvette ^a   Lampe, Cliff ^a   Vitak, Jessica ^a   Ellison, Nicole B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult users; Collaboration; Coordination; Facebook; Home; Information seeking; Social information use; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

ADULT USERS; COLLABORATION; COORDINATION; FACEBOOK; HOME; INFORMATION-SEEKING; SOCIAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 79952615122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1940761.1940808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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