Why do people share photos online? Antecedents of photos' quality and quantity

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4601-4619

  Nov, Oded ^a   Ye, Chen ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Content creation; Content quality; Content sharing; Flickr; Motivations; Online communities; Photo sharing; Social computing

Indexed keywords

CONTENT CREATION; CONTENT QUALITIES; CONTENT SHARING; FLICKR; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PHOTO SHARING; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870341425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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