Analyzing the quality of information solicited from targeted strangers on social media

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 967-976

  Nichols, Jeffrey ^a   Zhou, Michelle X ^a   Yang, Huahai ^a   Kang, Jeon Hyung ^b   Sun, Xiaohua ^c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Product reviews; Social Q A; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; INFORMATION COLLECTIONS; PRODUCT REVIEWS; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS; TECHNICAL BARRIERS; TWITTER;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84874890662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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