Social engineering in the information age

Information Society

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-71

  Duff, Alistair S ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deontology; Information society; Left liberalism; Policy making; Social engineering; Teleology

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344276929     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240590895937     Document Type: Article

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