Perceptions of Facebook's value as an information source

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3195-3204

  Lampe, Cliff ^a   Vitak, Jessica ^b   Gray, Rebecca ^b   Ellison, Nicole B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Information seeking; Social capital; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; FACEBOOK; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION SOURCES; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STAFF MEMBERS; USERS' PERCEPTION;

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84862080248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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