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Digital civics: taking a local turn

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Interactions, Volume 22, Issue 4

Pages 61 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/2776885

Published: 25 June 2015 Publication History

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Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor

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Digital civics: taking a local turn
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web

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Interactions Volume 22, Issue 4

July - August 2015

73 pages

ISSN:1072-5520

EISSN:1558-3449

DOI:10.1145/2797212

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