Collaboration in online communities: Reconceptualising the complex problem of unauthorised music file sharing

ACIS 2010 Proceedings - 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Beekhuyzen, Jenine ^a   von Hellens, Liisa ^a   Nielsen, Sue ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Ethnography; Music file sharing; Online communities

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; ETHNOGRAPHY; FILE SHARING; FOCUS GROUPS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; MUSIC FILE SHARING; MUSIC PIRACY; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870387810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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