The south asian web': An emerging community information system in the south asian diaspora

Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Participatory Design: Expanding Boundaries in Design, PDC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 125-133

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a   Shilton, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities; Diaspora; Ethnography; Everyday Practices; Information System; Ontologies; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITY INFORMATION SYSTEM; DIASPORA; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVERYDAY PRACTICES; FUTURE VISIONS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 84958545415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1147261.1147280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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