You scratch someone's back and we'll scratch yours: Collective reciprocity in social Q&A communities

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2069-2077

  Wu, Philip Fei ^a   Korfiatis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

communities of practice; message systems; virtual communities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MESSAGE SYSTEMS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS; SOCIAL NORM; STRUCTURATION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84883851165     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22913     Document Type: Article

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