Literary sleuths online: E-Research collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-187

  Schroeder, Ralph ^a   Den Besten, Matthijs ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed collaboration; E Research; Online communities; Thomas Pynchon; Wikis

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149088226     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180801934297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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