Breaking news on Wikipedia: Dynamics, structures, and roles in high-tempo collaboration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 315-318

  Keegan, Brian C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breaking news; coauthorship; current events; network analysis; social network; social roles; wikipedia

Indexed keywords

BREAKING NEWS; COAUTHORSHIP; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL ROLES; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84858216405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2141512.2141609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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