Communicative genres as organising structures in online communities - of team players and storytellers

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 551-567

  Moser, Christine ^a   Ganley, Dale ^b   Groenewegen, Peter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communicative genre; Mixed methods; Online communities; Organising structures; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE GENRES; COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GENRE REPERTOIRES; MIXED METHOD; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84885896045     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isj.12022     Document Type: Article

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