Cybernetics and American youth subculture

Cultural Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 382-409

  Eglash, Ron ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Chaos theory; Cybernetics; Fractals; Hippies; Rap; Youth subculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749471169     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095023898335474     Document Type: Article

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