Knowledge Building and Motivations in Wikipedia: Participation as "Ba"

At the Interface: Probing the Boundaries

Volumn 56, Issue , 2009, Pages 51-67

  Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^a   Hayat, Tsahi ^a   Ariel, Yaron ^a  

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Author keywords

ba; knowledge building community; motivations; sense of community; uses and gratifications; Wikipedia; Wikipedians

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900653143     PISSN: 15707113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789401206747_004     Document Type: Chapter

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