Supporting "everyday analysts" in safety- and time-critical situations

Information Society

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-62

  Palen, Leysia ^a   Vieweg, Sarah ^b   Anderson, Kenneth Mark ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen response; Computer mediated communication; Crisis informatics; Disasters; Wide scale interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651068300     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2011.534370     Document Type: Article

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