Gender, representation and online participation: A quantitative study

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 488-511

  Vasilescu, Bogdan ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^b   Serebrenik, Alexander ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer supported collaborative work; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Gender; Online communities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; GENDER; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE PARTICIPATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906812156     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iwt047     Document Type: Article

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