Paper Info
Title
Online support communities for older people: investigating network patterns and characteristics of social support
Abstract
My PhD research aims to identify the components of social support in online support communities for older people. Findings will show how older people support each other in these online communities and how they form a social network based on their communication activities. In addition, my PhD research will reveal how different characteristics of social support evolve and change over time. I will investigate how relationships between older people form, dissolve, and are reconstructed within online support communities, and how individual members are integrated and take on certain roles and responsibilities within the community. Based on the findings, a descriptive model that conceptualises the exchange of social support in online support communities for older people will be developed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1328567.1328574
ACM SIGACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
social network,phd research,online support community,communication activity,online community,older people,network pattern,descriptive model,certain role,older people form,social support
Journal
89
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
89
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ulrike Pfeil146632.58