"Voluntweeters": Self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1071-1080

  Starbird, Kate ^a   Palen, Leysia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Crisis informatics; Crowdsourcing; Disaster; Emergency; Microblogging; Organizing; Risk communication; Self organizing; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CROWDSOURCING; GROUPWARE;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; EMERGENCY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MICROBLOGGING; ORGANIZING; RISK COMMUNICATION; SELF-ORGANISING; TIME OF CRISIS; VOLUNTEER;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 79958148729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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