Inferring international dotcom Web communities by link and content analysis

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1117-1133

  Chung, Chung Joo ^a   Barnett, George A ^b   Park, Han Woo ^c  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cultural convergence theory; Cultural divergence theory; Dotcom domain; International hyperlink; Telecommunication network; Website content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895907826     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-013-9847-z     Document Type: Article

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