Computer networks as social networks: Collaborative work, telework, and virtual community

Knowledge and Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-208

  Wellman, Barry ^a   Salaff, Janet ^a   Dimitrova, Dimitrina ^a   Garton, Laura ^a   Gulia, Milena ^a   Haythornthwaite, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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