What's the deal with the web/blogs/the next big technology: A key role for information science in e-Social science research?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3507, Issue , 2005, Pages 187-199

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Wouters, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

E-SOCIAL SCIENCE; HUMANITIES; INFORMATION SOURCES; RESEARCH QUAESTIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 24944481562     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11495222_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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