Accessing Egypt: Making myths and producing Web sites in cyber-Cairo

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-219

  Peterson, M A ^a   Panovic, I ^b  

^a 164 Upham Hall ^*  (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PORTALS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION; CYBER SOCIAL RELATIONS; INTERCONNECTEDNESS; REFLEXIVE RECOGNITION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 11444260108     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560512331325991     Document Type: Article

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