Digital mobilization in disaster response: The work & self-organization of on-line pet advocates in response to hurricane sandy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 866-876

  White, Joanne I ^a   Palen, Leysia ^a   Anderson, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Animals; Computer mediated communication; Crisis informatics; Disasters; Organizing; Pets; Self organizing; Social computing; Social media; Structuration

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DISASTERS; HURRICANES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ACTIVISM; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; ORGANIZING; PETS; SELF- ORGANIZING; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRUCTURATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898937960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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