Locast Civic Media: Extending civic engagement boundaries through mobile media and hyper-local conversations

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1437-1442

  Boardman, David ^a   Casalegno, Federico ^a   Pomeroy, Steve ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic media; Field study; Geo social networks; Hyperlocalism; Mobile devices; Social sustainability

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN JOURNALISM; CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; CIVIC MEDIA; CONTENT DISSEMINATION; DESIGN METHOD; EMERGING PATTERNS; FIELD STUDIES; FUTURE DESIGNS; HYPERLOCALISM; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MEDIA PRODUCTION; MOBILE MEDIA; PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY; VIDEO PRODUCTION;

MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856159444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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