The key is not to forget to be awesome: Identifying narratives in an online community

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 490-505

  Escobar, Mariana Leyton ^a   Kommers, Piet ^b   Beldad, Ardion ^b  

^a University of Twente ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community outreach; Culture; Narratives; Nerdfighters; Participation; Web based communities; YouTube

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

COMMUNITY OUTREACH; NARRATIVES; NERDFIGHTERS; PARTICIPATION; WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES; YOUTUBE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84908254125     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2014.065396     Document Type: Article

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