No Time to Think: Academics’ life in the globally wired university

Time & Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-98

  Menzies, Heather ^a   Newson, Janice ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

academics; creativity; global economy; on line technologies; pace; temporal order

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847007353     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X07074103     Document Type: Article

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