Blogging in a region of conflict: Supporting transition to recovery

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1069-1078

  Al Ani, Ban ^a   Mark, Gloria ^a   Semaan, Bryan ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

blogs; community; disrupted environment; empirical study; understanding the user

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; BLOGOSPHERES; COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST; COMMUNITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; LARGE NETWORKS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RECOVERY MODEL; SOCIAL NORM; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERNET; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLOGS;

EID: 77954006836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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