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Interaction on An Academic Social Networking Sites: A Study of ResearchGate Q&A on Library and Information Science

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Shengli Deng,

Jingjing Tong,

Shaoxiong FuAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '18: Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3197026.3197062

Published: 23 May 2018 Publication History

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Online information interaction on academic social networking sites (ASNSs) has been increasingly popular in recent years. It is unclear whether these sites have satisfied scholars' needs for interaction. This study investigates what scholars ask about, what features the questions and answers convey, and what socio-emotional reactions during the interaction on ResearchGate Q&A. Bales' Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) was adopted to analyze 371 questions and 7530 answers on Library and Information Science from ResearchGate Q&A. Implications of results are discussed and suggestions for future study are made.

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1. Networks
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    1. Network performance analysis
  2. Network types
    1. Overlay and other logical network structures
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JCDL '18: Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

May 2018

453 pages

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DOI:10.1145/3197026

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