Social networking as a vehicle to foster cross-cultural awareness

Proceedings of IDC 2011 - 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 209-212

  Walsh, Greg ^a   Brown, Quincy ^b   Druin, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural; social networking; visualization

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL; FACEBOOK; NETWORK DESIGNER; NETWORK TOOLS; ONLINE IDENTITY; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; DESIGN; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 79960281171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999030.1999063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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