Botivist: Calling volunteers to action using online bots

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

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 813-822

  Savage, Saiph ^a   Monroy Hernández, Andrés ^b   Höllerer, Tobias ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Bots; Micro contributions; Social media; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACTIVISM; BOTS; MICRO-CONTRIBUTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VOLUNTEERS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84963570081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2818048.2819985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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