The use of theory in social studies of web 2.0

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chong, EunRyung ^a   Xie, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PATTERNS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; MASS MEDIA; RESEARCH DATA; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952981442     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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