Multimedia utopia? A geographical critique of high-tech development in Malaysia's multimedia super corridor

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Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 265-295

  Bunnell, Tim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDIA INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 28944441710     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8330.00238     Document Type: Review

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