The diffusion of support in an online social movement: Evidence from the adoption of equal-sign profile pictures

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1741-1750

  State, Bogdan ^a   Adamic, Lada ^a  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion Mechanisms; Online Social Movements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DIFFUSION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ADOPTION CURVES; COMPLEX DIFFUSIONS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFUSION MECHANISMS; FACEBOOK; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; THRESHOLD MODEL;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84939136166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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