Networked individualism of Urban residents: Discovering the communicative ecology in inner-city apartment buildings

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 749-772

  Foth, Marcus ^a   Hearn, Greg ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communicative ecology; New media; Urban development

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448944398     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701658095     Document Type: Article

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