Imagining the Wikipedia community: What do Wikipedia authors mean when they write about their 'community'?

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 704-721

  Pentzold, Christian ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; Grounded Theory; online community; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960903980     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810378364     Document Type: Article

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