The community is where the rapport is - On sense and structure in the youtube community

C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 41-49

  Rotman, Dana ^a   Golbeck, Jennifer ^a   Preece, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded Theory; Online communities; Small worlds; Social networks; Video sharing; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY IS; GROUNDED THEORY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE VIDEO; QUALITATIVE DATA; SENSE OF COMMUNITY; SMALL WORLDS; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIDEO SHARING; YOUTUBE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85139514880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1556460.1556467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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