Reciprocity, social curation and the emergence of blogging: A study in community formation

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue , 2011, Pages 26-36

  Ammann, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blogs; Community formation; Curation; History; Hypertext; Network formation; Reciprocity; Web; Web history; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054689056     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.07.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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