From slacktivism to activism: Participatory culture in the age of social media

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 819-822

  Rotman, Dana ^a   Preece, Jenny ^a   Vieweg, Sarah ^b   Ben, Shneiderman ^c   Yardi, Sarita ^d   Pirolli, Peter ^e   Chi, Ed H ^f   Glaisyer, Tom ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^g NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Change; Design; Participation; Slacktivism; Social media

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER PREVENTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ACTIVISM; CHANGE; FACEBOOK; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; PARTICIPATION; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SLACKTIVISM; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL-NETWORKING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79957949181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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