Genre: A useful construct for researching online communication for the workplace

Information Design Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 124-136

  Carliner, Saul ^a   Boswood, Timothy ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Genre; Online communication; Print communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749593268     PISSN: 01425471     EISSN: 1569979X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/idjdd.12.2.05car     Document Type: Article

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