Facebook usage in government - A case study of information content

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 354-362

  Magnusson, Monika ^a   Bellström, Peter ^a   Thorén, Claes ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Facebook usage; Government; Government 2.0; Information content; Social media; Social networking services (SNSs)

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT 2.0; INFORMATION CONTENTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877880947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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