On participation in group chats on Twitter

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 165-175

  Budak, Ceren ^a   Agrawal, Rakesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Group dynamics; Information overload; Mixed methods; Online communities; Ostracism; Speech codes theory; Twitter chats

Indexed keywords

GROUP THEORY; LINGUISTICS;

GROUP DYNAMICS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; MIXED METHOD; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; OSTRACISM; TWITTER CHATS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893121840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2488388.2488404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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