Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, a voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 159-168

  Mudliar, Preeti ^a   Donner, Jonathan ^b   Thies, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen journalism; ICT4D; ICTD; Interactive voice response; IVR; Journalism; M4D; Participation; Socioeconomic development

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN JOURNALISM; ICT4D; ICTD; INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE; IVR; JOURNALISM; M4D; PARTICIPATION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RURAL AREAS;

INTERNET;

EID: 84859035490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160673.2160695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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