Genres and the Web: Is the personal home page the first uniquely digital genre?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 202-205

  Dillon, Andrew ^a   Gushrowski, Barbara A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b St Vincent Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

PERSONAL HOME PAGE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033891341     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:2<202::AID-ASI11>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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