Who acquires friends hrough social media and why? "Rich get richer" versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"

ICWSM 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 170-177

  Tufekci, Zeynep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; MULTI METHODS; ON-LINE INTERACTIONS; POPULAR CULTURES; RICH GET RICHER; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL TIES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84890677003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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