Badges of friendship: Social influence and badge acquisition on stack overflow

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1607-1615

  Halavais, Alexander ^a   Kwon, K Hazel ^a   Havener, Shannon ^a   Striker, Jason ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELF-DIRECTED; SOCIAL CONNECTION; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; STACK OVERFLOW;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 84902270328     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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