Spreading the load: Mobile information and communications technologies and their effect on information overload

Information Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Allen, David K ^a   Shoard, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 14744286885     PISSN: 13681613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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