Perceived bridging and bonding social capital on Twitter: Differentiating between followers and followees

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2134-2142

  Hofer, Matthias ^a   Aubert, Viviane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bonding online social capital; Bridging online social capital; Followees; Followers; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BONDING SOCIAL CAPITALS; BRIDGING SOCIAL CAPITALS; CURVILINEAR EFFECT; FOLLOWEES; FOLLOWERS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; SOCIAL CAPITALS; TWITTER;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84878618447     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.04.038     Document Type: Article

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