"Popcorn tastes good": Participatory policymaking and Reddit's "AMAgeddon"

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1126-1137

  Centivany, Alissa ^a   Glushko, Bobby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information policy; Online communities; Participatory policymaking; Social media; Value sensitive design

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INFORMATION POLICY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 85015064599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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