Implicit many-to-one communication in online communities

Proceedings of the 3rd Communities and Technologies Conference, C and T 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 265-274

  Xia, Mu ^a   Huang, Yun ^b   Duan, Wenjing ^c   Whinstorr, Andrew B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; MANY-TO-ONE COMMUNICATIONS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL COMPUTING; USER COMMUNICATION; USER INTERACTION; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES;

COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883025530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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