The dialectics of place and space: On community in the 'Information Age'

New Media and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 313-334

  Slack, Roger S ^a   Williams, Robin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Information society; Interfaces; Local use of ICTs; User constituencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034551129     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444800002003004     Document Type: Article

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