Making an entrance 2.0: The linguistics of introductory success in virtual communities

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dove, James A ^a   Eubanks, Dawn L ^a   Panteli, Niki ^a   Watts, Leon A ^a   Joinson, Adam N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PERSON; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; NEW MEMBERS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEB 2.0;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79952917583     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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