Wedding dresses and wanted criminals: Pinterest.com as an infrastructure for repository building

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 650-658

  Zarro, Michael ^a   Hall, Catherine ^a   Forte, Andrea ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY OBJECTS; CRITICAL DIMENSION; ONLINE ACTIVITIES; PERSONAL USE; QUALITATIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900443993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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