Groups in academic social networking services, An exploration of their potential as a platform for multi-disciplinary collaboration

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 545-548

  Jung, Sun Oh ^a   Wei, Jeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic social networking services (ASNS); Multi disciplinary collaboration; Online groups

Indexed keywords

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES; GROUP FORMATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; ONLINE GROUPS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; USER PARTICIPATION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84856191494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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