Redesign as an act of violence: Disrupted interaction patterns and the fragmenting of a social Q&A community

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2847-2856

  Gazan, Rich ^a  

^a University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Online communities; Question answering; Social Q A

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITY IS; INTERACTION PATTERN; MASS MIGRATION; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL QUESTION ANSWERING; TRANSACTION LOG; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 79958143519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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