Investigating the reciprocal relationships within health virtual communities

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1073-1081

  Kordzadeh, Nima ^a   Au, Yoris A ^a   Liu, Charles Zhechao ^a   Clark, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Health virtual communities; Homophily; Online social networks; Reciprocity; User participation

Indexed keywords

HOMOPHILY; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; RECIPROCITY; USER PARTICIPATION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HEALTH;

EID: 84877895612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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