Exploring qualitative sharing practices of social metadata: Expanding the attention economy

Information Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-72

  Skågeby, Jörgen ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Facebook; Gift giving; Online ethnography; Social metadata

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449201514     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240802587588     Document Type: Article

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