Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is a long-haul disaster that has brought forth extreme hardship, in particular food insecurity. Local citizens across the United States created online groups to facilitate mutual aid, a form of community-based disaster relief. In this paper, we are interested in how online mutual aid groups addressed food insecurity through facilitating various community-based initiatives. We interviewed mutual aid group organizers in the United States and found that online groups contributed immediate food relief as well as laid the groundwork for long-term food security. These findings have implications for community resilience in the wake of an ongoing disaster.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 104-107 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450384797 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 23 2021 |
| Event | 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021 Companion - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Oct 23 2021 → Oct 27 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW |
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Conference
| Conference | 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021 Companion |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 10/23/21 → 10/27/21 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction
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