Communicating in a transnational network of social activists: The crucial importance of mailing list usage

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6969 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 81-88

  Saeed, Saqib ^a   Rohde, Markus ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

community informatics; email communication; European social forum; mailing list; social activists

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY INFORMATICS; EMAIL COMMUNICATION; EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM; MAILING LISTS; SOCIAL ACTIVISTS;

DECISION MAKING;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 80054804904     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23801-7_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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