Knowledge and social networks in Yahoo! Answers

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 781-789

  Rechavi, Amit ^a   Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTUAL DEPENDENCIES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL TIES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 84857948955     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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