Multiple presents: How search engines rewrite the past

New Media and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 901-924

  Hellsten, Iina ^a   Leydesdorff, Loet ^b,c   Wouters, Paul ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Internet; Search engines; Temporality; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750562245     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444806069648     Document Type: Article

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