Fresh faces in the crowd: Turnover, identity, and commitment in online groups

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 245-248

  Dabbish, Laura ^a   Farzan, Rosta ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Postmes, Tom ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attachment; commitment; identity.; online groups; turnover

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT; COMMITMENT; IDENTITY.; ONLINE GROUPS; TURNOVER;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84858176765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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