'STOP SPAMMING ME!' - Exploring information overload on Facebook

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2609-2618

  Koroleva, Ksenia ^a   Krasnova, Hanna ^a   Günther, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information overload; Information relevance; Social networking sites; Social spamming

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION RELEVANCE; NETWORK PROVIDER; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SPAMMING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870386884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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