Getting acquainted with groups and individuals: Information seeking, social uncertainty and social network sites

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 138-144

  Doodson, James ^a   Gavin, Jeff ^a   Joiner, Richard ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

HAMILTONS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION-SEEKING STRATEGIES; INTERACTIVE STRATEGY; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900452854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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