They threw me a computer... but what I really needed was a life preserver

First Monday

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Wilhelm, Anthony G ^a  

^a Benton Foundation   (United States)

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EID: 33645187042     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v6i4.844     Document Type: Article

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3. Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market Systems. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.
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