TXTmob: Text messaging for protest swarms

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1455-1458

  Hirsch, Tad ^a   Henry, John ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Institute for Applied Autonomy   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Cell phone; Political protest; SMS; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

ACTIVISM; BROADCAST SYSTEMS; CELL PHONE; MASS MOBILIZATION; NEW FORMS; NEWSMEDIA; POLITICAL PROTEST; SELF-REPORTING; SMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 80054079471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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