Gender, representation and online participation: A quantitative study of StackOverflow

Proceedings of the 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, SocialInformatics 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 332-338

  Vasilescu, Bogdan ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^b   Serebrenik, Alexander ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE PARTICIPATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL IMPACT; STACK OVERFLOW; UNDER-REPRESENTED;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84881046587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialInformatics.2012.81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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