Socio-spatial implications of converging physical and digital infrastructures for crisis management: Ethnography of two service technician working environments of a power provider company

ISCRAM 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Müller, Claudia ^a   Pipek, Volkmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Ethnography; In situ; Service work; Socio spatial bound knowledge

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT; RURAL AREAS;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES; ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE; ETHNOGRAPHY; POWER INFRASTRUCTURES; SERVICE WORK; SOCIO-SPATIAL BOUND KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905560987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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