From silicon valley to the valley of teotihuacan: The "Yahoo!s" of new media and digital heritage

Visual Anthropology Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-200

  Webmoor, Timothy ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Metamedia Lab

Author keywords

Digital heritage; New media; Open source; Platform shift; Teotihuacan; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049210768     PISSN: 10587187     EISSN: 15487458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7458.2008.00012.x     Document Type: Article

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