From shoebox to performative agent: The computer as personal memory machine

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-332

  Van Dijck, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural memory; Digitization; Personal memory; Software and culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444449388     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805050765     Document Type: Article

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