Social media for citizen participation report on the somus project

VTT Publications

Volumn , Issue 755, 2011, Pages 1-131

  Näkki, Pirjo ^a   Bäck, Asta ^a   Ropponen, Teemu ^b   Kronqvist, Juha ^b   Hintikka, Kari A ^c   Harju, Auli ^d   Pöyhtäri, Reeta ^d   Kola, Petri ^e  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Open Research Swarm   (Finland)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Co design; Collaboration; Open data; Open research; Self organization; Social media; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; CO-DESIGNS; COLLABORATION; OPEN DATA; OPEN RESEARCH; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80054924029     PISSN: 12350621     EISSN: 14550849     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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