Encouraging civic participation through local news aggregation

Information Polity

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 35-56

  Kavanaugh, Andrea ^a   Krishnan, Siddarth ^a   Pérez Quiñones, Manuel ^a   Tedesco, John ^a   Madondo, Kumbirai ^a   Ahuja, Ankit ^a  

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

Author keywords

Civic participation; information aggregator; local information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902468725     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-140332     Document Type: Article

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