Textured Connectivity: An ethnographic approach to understanding the timescape of hyperlinks

Cybermetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Beaulieu, Anne ^a   Simakova, Elena ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Hyperlink analysis; Time; Virtual ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750556598     PISSN: 11375019     EISSN: 11375019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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