Understanding the influence of blog on the development of social capital

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 34-45

  Vaezi, Reza ^a   Torkzadeh, Gholamreza ^b   Chang, Jerry Cha Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; PLS; Reciprocity; Social capital; Social connections; Trust; Web Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053933518     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2038056.2038059     Document Type: Article

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