Ethical and legal issues for writing researchers in an age of media convergence

Computers and Composition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-122

  McKee, Heidi A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Copyright; Ethics; Internet; Methodology; Multimedia; Multimodal; Online; Publication; Qualitative; Representation; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 39649089377     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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