Identifying the indicators attracting users to online question and answer discussion forums

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 283-292

  Cheng, Shan Shan ^a   Liu, Eric Zhi Feng ^a   Shieh, Ruey S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Learning resources; Online question and answer discussion forum; Social cognitive theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858838001     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2012.40.2.283     Document Type: Article

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