Building trust in electronic-to-face social network sites : case study of CouchSurfing.org

This thesis examines the process of trust-building on electronic-to-face Social Network Sites (e2f-SNSs), where users first connect online and then extend the connection to the offline realm. Using CouchSurfing.org as a case study, I investigate how users of an e2f-SNS utilize tools given by the pla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Jun-E
Other Authors: Cherian George
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/53526