TY - GEN
T1 - How and why people Twitter
T2 - 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'09
AU - Zhao, Dejin
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Micro-blogs, a relatively new phenomenon, provide a new communication channel for people to broadcast information that they likely would not share otherwise using existing channels (e.g., email, phone, IM, or weblogs). Micro-blogging has become popu-lar quite quickly, raising its potential for serving as a new informal communication medium at work, providing a variety of impacts on collaborative work (e.g., enhancing information sharing, building common ground, and sustaining a feeling of connectedness among colleagues). This exploratory research project is aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of how and why people use Twitter - a popular micro-blogging tool - and exploring micro-blog's poten-tial impacts on informal communication at work.
AB - Micro-blogs, a relatively new phenomenon, provide a new communication channel for people to broadcast information that they likely would not share otherwise using existing channels (e.g., email, phone, IM, or weblogs). Micro-blogging has become popu-lar quite quickly, raising its potential for serving as a new informal communication medium at work, providing a variety of impacts on collaborative work (e.g., enhancing information sharing, building common ground, and sustaining a feeling of connectedness among colleagues). This exploratory research project is aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of how and why people use Twitter - a popular micro-blogging tool - and exploring micro-blog's poten-tial impacts on informal communication at work.
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U2 - 10.1145/1531674.1531710
DO - 10.1145/1531674.1531710
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450162300
SN - 9781605585000
T3 - GROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 243
EP - 252
BT - GROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work
Y2 - 10 May 2009 through 13 May 2009
ER -