The military in the noosphere: ICT adoption and website development in the Slovenian Ministry of Defense

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 194-216

  Purcell, Darren ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geopolitics; ICTs; Noosphere; Representations of space; Semiotics; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044467514     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180500146318     Document Type: Review

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