Culture or social interaction? A study of influential factors on weblog design

Proceedings of the European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems: Global Information Systems Challenges in Management, EMCIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ali, Maimunah ^a   Lee, Habin ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blogs; Culture; Social influence; Social networking; Web design

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD; DESIGN ELEMENTS; DESIGN PATTERNS; EASE OF USE; HYPERLINKS; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; ON-LINE NETWORK; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB DESIGNS;

BLOGS; CELL CULTURE; DESIGN; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84863147744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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