Structural and cognitive bottlenecks to information access in social networks

HT 2013 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 51-59

  Kang, Jeon Hyung ^a   Lerman, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; INFORMATION ACCESS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NOVEL INFORMATION; ON-LINE NETWORK; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; STRUCTURAL NETWORKS;

COMPETITION; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84879771174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2481492.2481498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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