The Self-Organization of Digital Volunteers across Social Media: The Case of the 2013 European Floods in Germany

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 137-166

  Kaufhold, Marc André ^a   Reuter, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

emergencies; ethnography; Europe; Germany; qualitative; social media; volunteers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964837788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15477355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jhsem-2015-0063     Document Type: Article

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