Have you heard?: How gossip flows through workplace email

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 242-249

  Mitra, Tanushree ^a   Gilbert, Eric ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS; MOST LIKELY; NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES; POWER LAW RELATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84890724491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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