Burning Man at Google: A cultural infrastructure for new media production

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 73-94

  Turner, Fred ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Art and technology; Counterculture; Cultural Infrastructure; Culture; Economy; Free labor; Peer production

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349119916     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444808099575     Document Type: Article

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