Solar panels, shovels and the 'net: Selective uses of technology in the homesteading movement

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 182-201

  Housel, Teresa Heinz ^a  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dystopian; Luddite; Technology; Utopian; Voluntary simplicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646519515     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180600630765     Document Type: Article

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