international risk and crisis communication conference 2012

Selected as TOP academic paper at International Risk and Crisis Communication Conference 2012

“Imagine if Amazon could basically out-source their categorization, turning all of its products into objects that “editors” could neatly group together in ways that make sense to them and the people who follow them. It’s a mix of e-commerce and Wikipedia, and that site is none other than Pinterest.”

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