Technologies within Transnational Social Activist Communities: An Ethnographic Study of the European Social Forum

C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 85-94

  Saeed, Saqib ^a   Rohde, Markus ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ad hoc communities and ICTs; community informatics; ethnographic case study; facilitation of communities; ICT4D (for development); technology the third sector

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC COMMUNITY; AD-HOC COMMUNITY AND ICT; CASE-STUDIES; COMMUNITY INFORMATICS; ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY; FACILITATION OF COMMUNITY; ICT4D (FOR DEVELOPMENT); SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; TECHNOLOGY & THE THIRD SECTOR;

EID: 77953994426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1556460.1556474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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