'Every group carries the flavour of the admins': Leadership on Flickr

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 376-391

  Holmes, Paul ^a   Cox, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flickr; Leadership; Moderation; Online community; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

FLICKR; LEADERSHIP; MODERATION; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; WEB 2.0;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79960430667     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2011.041205     Document Type: Article

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