Designing the undesignable: Social software and control

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 60-71

  Dron, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Self organization; Social software; Transactional distance; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949171571     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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