Open sourcing our way to an online commons: Contesting corporate impermeability in the new media ecology

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 393-412

  Milberry, Kate ^a   Anderson, Steve ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Code; Computer mediated communication; Corporate colonization of cyberspace; Critical communication studies; Information society

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349538803     PISSN: 01968599     EISSN: 15524612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0196859909340349     Document Type: Review

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