Motivations for sharing information and social support in social media: A comparative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2045-2060

  Oh, Sanghee ^a   Syn, Sue Yeon ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

information seeking; motivation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOTIVATION;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SHARING; MOTIVATION THEORIES; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SHARING INFORMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84942301448     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23320     Document Type: Article

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