Working & sustaining the virtual disaster desk

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 491-502

  Starbird, Kate ^a   Palen, Leysia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic participation; Crisis informatics; CSCW; Digital volunteers; Knowledge commons; Virtual organizations

Indexed keywords

CIVIC PARTICIPATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; CSCW; DIGITAL VOLUNTEERS; KNOWLEDGE COMMONS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84874856241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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