Making sense of the information age

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 439-458

  Webster, Frank ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cultural Studies; Information Age; Information Society; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344458577     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180500418212     Document Type: Review

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