The Internet as a library-of-people: For a cyberethnography of online groups

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Teli, Maurizio ^a   Pisanu, Francesco ^a,b   Hakken, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education ^*  (Italy)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cyberethnography; Cyberspace; Virtuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048952747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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