Adding the missing user to policy discourse: understanding US user telephone privacy concerns

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 403-435

  Dervin, Brenda ^a   Shields, Peter ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; SPEECH; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELEPHONE SETS;

DERVIN SENSE MAKING METHODOLOGY; MISSING USER; TELEPHONE PRIVACY;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033138312     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(99)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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