(Hyper) local news aggregation: Designing for social affordances

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 30-39

  Kavanaugh, Andrea ^a,b   Gad, Samah ^b   Neidig, Sloane ^b   Pérez Quĩones, Manuel A ^a,b   Tedesco, John ^a   Ahuja, Ankit ^a,b   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

civic engagement; news aggregators; social affordances

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; DESIGN STRATEGIES; DISPERSED SITES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMED DECISION; LOCAL NEWSPAPER; LOCAL SOURCE; NEWS AGGREGATION; NEWS AGGREGATORS; PODCASTS; PRINT MEDIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RSS FEEDS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATE OF THE ART; SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

DECISION MAKING; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84864334809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2307729.2307736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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