The net as a foraging society: Flexible communities

Information Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-106

  Komito, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Electronic groups; Ethnography; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032337235     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019722498128908     Document Type: Article

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