Wired academia: Why social science scholars are using social media

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3332-3341

  Gruzd, Anatoliy ^a   Goertzen, Melissa ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS; GENERAL PUBLICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84875539506     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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