Diasporic information environments: Reframing immigrant-focused information research

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1734-1744

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a   Pyati, Ajit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIASPORIC INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT MODEL (DIEM); DIASPORIC RESEARCH; GLOBALIZATION;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348858917     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20658     Document Type: Article

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