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Digital Sociotechnical Systems of Mutual Aid: How Communities Connected, Adapted, and Innovated During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City Cover

Digital Sociotechnical Systems of Mutual Aid: How Communities Connected, Adapted, and Innovated During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 7 (2022): Issue 1
By: Carolynne Hultquist and  Ramzi M. Tubbeh  
Open Access
|May 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.454 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 3, 2021
Accepted on: Mar 11, 2022
Published on: May 19, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
disaster,
crisis,
citizen science,
technology,
solidarity

© 2022 Carolynne Hultquist, Ramzi M. Tubbeh, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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