Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ573993
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0748-5786
What's Everybody Talking About?: Message Functions and Topics on Electronic Lists and Newsgroups in Information and Library Science.
Wildemuth, Barbara M.; Crenshaw, Lisa; Jenniches, William; Harmes, J. Christine
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, v38 n2 p137-56 Spr 1997
Describes a study that analyzed 14 electronic lists or newsgroups in library and information science to find out which topics of discussion are dominant and which functions are performed by the messages posted. It also introduced students to this type of professional communication and to content analysis as a research method. Contains 51 references. (Author/LRW)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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