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Empirical Research

Online health communities: how do community members build the trust required to adopt information and form close relationships?

Hanmei FanSchool of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
&
Reeva LedermanSchool of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
|
Frantz Rowe
(Accepting Editor) &
Sabine Matook
(Associate Editor)
Pages 62-89 | Received 12 Jul 2015, Accepted 12 Jul 2017, Published online: 14 Nov 2017

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