Trust in social Q&A: The impact of text and photo cues of expertise

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Golbeck, Jennifer ^a   Fleischmann, Kenneth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Information behavior; Online communities; Social factors; Social Q A; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555207313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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