How and to whom people share: The role of culture in self-disclosure in online communities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 67-76

  Zhao, Chen ^a   Hinds, Pamela ^b   Gao, Ge ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

communication mode; cross culture; hci; relationship; self disclosure; social networking sites

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION MODE; CROSS CULTURE; RELATIONSHIP; SELF-DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84858214802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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