Information seeking on social media sites: An exploratory study

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 3238-3247

  Osatuyi, Babajide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information search; Information seeking; Social media

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SEEKING; MICROBLOGGING; ONLINE FORUMS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USE SOCIAL NETWORKS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877852910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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