Hometown Websites: Continuous Maintenance of Cross-Border Connections

C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 145-154

  Castro, Luis A ^a   Gonzalez, Victor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community informatics; Diasporic Websites; Interactions between online and offline communities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY INFORMATICS; CONTINUOUS MAINTENANCE; CROSS-BORDER; DAILY LIVES; DIASPORIC WEBSITE; IN CONTEXTS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTERACTION BETWEEN ONLINE AND OFFLINE COMMUNITY; OFFLINE; PLACE-BASED;

WEBSITES;

EID: 85139429081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1556460.1556482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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