Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter - Paper 1

Information Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Dervin, Brenda ^a   Reinhard, CarrieLynn D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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