Online Lurkers Tell Why

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2688-2694

  Nonnecke, Blair ^a   Preece, Jenny ^b   Andrews, Dorine ^c   Voutour, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

delurking; free rider; lurker; online community; poster; survey

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITY IS; DE-LURKING; FREE-RIDERS; LURKE; LURKERS; MICROSOFT NETWORK; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; POSTER; WEB-BASED SURVEYS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 85139001023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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