Products and practices: Selected concepts from science and technology studies and from social theories of consumption and practice

Design Issues

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 3-16

  Ingram, Jack ^a   Shove, Elizabeth ^a   Watson, Matthew ^a  

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CONSUMPTION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34248136842     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: 15314790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/desi.2007.23.2.3     Document Type: Article

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