Getting Serious About Social Media: Strategies for Increasing Civic Participation

Technology-mediated social participation is generated when social networking tools (such as Facebook), blogs and microblogs (Twitter), user-generated content sites (YouTube), discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media are applied to national priorities such as health, energy, education, disaster response, environmental protection, business innovation, cultural heritage, or community safety.

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Ben Shneiderman

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Publication date: September 2010

Publication date (Print): September 2010

Pages: 6-7

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[0001]Dept. of Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction Lab

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2010.2

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2010

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 24

Conference location: University of Abertay, Dundee, UK

Conference date: 6 - 10 September 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction

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Getting Serious About Social Media: Strategies for Increasing Civic Participation

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