Work and the city in the e-society a critical investigation of the sociospatially situated character of economic production in the digital content industries in the UK

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 922-942

  Pratt, Andy C ^a   Gill, Rosalind ^b   Spelthann, Volker ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Open University

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer games; Film special effects; Location; New media; Production; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649023419     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701751155     Document Type: Article

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