Cultural influences in collaborative information sharing and organization

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration, ICIC '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 161-170

  Vatrapu, Ravi K ^a   Suthers, Daniel D ^b  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriation of affordances; Comparative informatics; Computer supported intercultural collaboration (CSIC); Culture; Information organization; Information sharing; Technological intersubjetcivity

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; CULTURE; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION SHARING; TECHNOLOGICAL INTERSUBJETCIVITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 77957938962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1841853.1841877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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