Participation in an online mathematics community: Differentiating motivations to add

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 207-216

  Tausczik, Yla R ^a   Pennebaker, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

motivation; online communities; question answering; scientific collaboration

Indexed keywords

ONLINE COMMUNITIES; QUESTION ANSWERING; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; USER BEHAVIORS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84858203920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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