Internet social networking - Distinguishing the phenomenon from its manifestations in web sites

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Richter, Daniel ^a   Riemer, Kai ^b   Vom Brocke, Jan ^a   Große Böckmann, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computermediated communication (CMC); Second life); Social networking (e.g. facebook; Virtual community; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; FACEBOOK; SECOND LIFE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEB 2.0;

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870693584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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