Increasing commitment to online communities by designing for social presence

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 321-330

  Farzan, Rosta ^a   Dabbish, Laura A ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^a   Postmes, Tom ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Commitment; Facebook games; Group identity; Online communities; Social attachment

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

COMMITMENT; FACEBOOK; GROUP IDENTITIES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL ATTACHMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79955143283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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