America online volunteers: Lessons from an early co-production community

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 451-469

  Postigo, Hector ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AOL; Co production; Free labor; Passionate labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349335213     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: 1460356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877909337858     Document Type: Article

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