Understanding the role of community in crowdfunding work

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 62-74

  Hui, Julie S ^a   Greenberg, Michael D ^a   Gerber, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Crowd work; Crowdfunding; Distributed work; Entrepreneurship; Support tools

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TOOLS;

COMMUNITY; CROWD WORK; CROWDFUNDING; DISTRIBUTED WORK; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; SUPPORT TOOL;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898937748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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