Television and internet differences by design: Rendering liveness, presence, and lived space

Convergence

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 341-355

  White, Michele ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminism; Gender; Immediacy; Information communication technologies; Internet; Live; New media; Real time; Television studies; Webcams

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049147330     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856506067206     Document Type: Article

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