Social informatics: Beyond emergence
β Scribed by Alex Halavais
- Publisher
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 417 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0095-4403
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