Online forums supporting grassroots participation in emergency preparedness and response

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 54-58

  Palen, Leysia ^a,b   Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^c   Liu, Sophia B ^b,d  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Alliance for Technology Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HURRICANE INFORMATION MAPS; MESSAGE BOARD; ONLINE FORUMS;

DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34147097461     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1226736.1226766     Document Type: Article

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