Content sharing in a social broadcasting environment: Evidence from Twitter

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-142

  Shi, Zhan ^a   Rui, Huaxia ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Content sharing; Information diffusion; Social broadcasting; Twitter; Weak tie

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BROADCASTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONTENT SHARING; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; SOCIAL BROADCASTING; TWITTER; WEAK TIE;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 84907580532     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.1.06     Document Type: Article

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