Theatre of use: A frame analysis of information technology demonstrations

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 449-480

  Smith, Wally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demonstrations; Frame analysis; Goffman; Information technology; Public experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249098879     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312708101978     Document Type: Article

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