Virtual gifts and guanxi : Supporting social exchange in a Chinese online community

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-54

  Yang, Jiang ^a   Ackerman, Mark S ^a   Adamic, Lada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese culture; Gift; Guanxi; Inter cultural studies; Online community; Reciprocity; Social exchange; Social interactions; Virtual points

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CHINESE CULTURE; CULTURAL STUDIES; GIFT; GUANXI; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; RECIPROCITY; SOCIAL EXCHANGE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL POINTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79955126802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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