The role of founders in building online groups

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 722-732

  Kraut, Robert E ^a   Fiore, Andrew T ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FACEBOOK   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth; Death; Facebook; Founder; Online groups

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

BIRTH; DEATH; FACEBOOK; FOUNDER; ONLINE GROUPS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898946426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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