Learning the lingo? Gender, prestige and linguistic adaptation in review communities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 305-314

  Hemphill, Libby ^a   Otterbacher, Jahna ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; linguistic entrainment; online community; social voting

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION STYLES; COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENT; GENDER; INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE; LINGUISTIC PATTERNS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL VOTING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84858265415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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