Shaping e-access in the cybercafé: Networks, boundaries and heterotopian innovation

New Media and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-334

  Liff, Sonia ^a   Steward, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Cybercaf ; E access; Heterotopia; Information and communication technology (ICT) policy; Innovation; Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141753027     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614448030053002     Document Type: Review

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