Helping you to help me: Exploring supportive interaction in online health community

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chuang, Katherine Y ^a   Yang, Christopher C ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Social networking; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861440778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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