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Information and Software Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 77-87

  Low, Janet ^a   Johnson, Jim ^b   Hall, Pat ^c   Hovenden, Fiona ^c   Rachel, Janet ^d   Robinson, Hugh ^c   Woolgar, Steve ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Mines   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Postmodernism; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

POSTMODERNISM;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0029707714     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(95)01046-7     Document Type: Article

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