Configuring the digital city of Amsterdam: Social learning in experimentation

New Media and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 131-156

  Van Lieshout, M J ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b Inst Strategy Technol and Plcy   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Dutch Rathenau Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital cities; Experimentation as mode of learning; Introduction of new media; Social construction of technology; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035591341     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614440122226029     Document Type: Article

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