Social-role identity salience and user participation in social networks

PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 333-344

  Zhang, Xiaoquan ^a   Wang, Chong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Differences in differences; Identity; Online social network function; Social preference; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCES-IN-DIFFERENCES; IDENTITY; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL PREFERENCE; WEB 2.0;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84862965823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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