Can blogs empower women? Designing agency-enhancing and community-building interfaces

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2781-2786

  Stavrositu, Carmen ^a   Sundar, S Shyam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Blogging; Community; Empowerment; Psychology of HCI; Social computing

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERNET;

AGENCY; BLOGGING; COMMUNITY; EMPOWERMENT; PSYCHOLOGY OF HCI; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049125154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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