Failures and successes: Notes on the development of electronic cash

Information Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-219

  Stalder, Felix ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Electronic cash; Mondex; Privacy; Private currencies; Security; Smartcards; Social transformations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036588148     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240290074968     Document Type: Article

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