When protests go virtual: How organizing social protest in virtual worlds changes the nature of organizing

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 551-560

  Blodgett, Bridget M ^a   Tapia, Andrea ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IBM; Information communication technology; Protest; Second life; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

IBM; INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; PROTEST; SECOND LIFE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84870567325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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