Finding community through information and communication technology during disaster events

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-136

  Shklovski, Irina ^a   Palen, Leysia ^b   Sutton, Jeannette ^c  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Computer mediated communication; Crisis informatics; Disaster; Emergency; Innovation; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BUILDING COMMUNITY; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISPERSIONS; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION SEEKING; PUBLIC GOODS; RE-ORIENTATION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

DISASTERS; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 70449482746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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