@inproceedings{e5f1e22e7d9f4c7c9d36e72dc7b608d3,
title = "Determining dimensions of social websites: Insights through Genre Theory",
abstract = "This paper considers an analysis of the dimensions of social websites as an important communication and collaboration tool for individual users and communities. Social websites may be referred to as social network sites and social media sites which reflect technology, user, content and linguistic issues for 'social' interaction. They have clearly achieved widespread adoption as a new means of communication in a very short time around the globe. Genre Theory is applied to classify extant literature on social websites to reflect their growing importance, the reasons for their adoption, the content shared, the mode of use and the language for communication. This paper therefore provides an elaborate consideration of user as well as numerous emerging research issues on the implications of this new media.",
keywords = "SNS language, Social networking, Social web sites, User created content",
author = "Mohini Singh and Yogesh Dwivedi and Ray Hackney and Konrad Peszynski",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1109/HICSS.2012.205",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769545257",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1728--1736",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-45",
address = "United States",
}