Online communities: Challenges and opportunities for social network research

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 463-477

  Groenewegen, Peter ^a   Moser, Christine ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big data; Online communities; Online forum; Social network; Structure; Tie formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901411484     PISSN: 0733558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040023     Document Type: Article

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