A critical discourse analysis of Amazon.com's rise in the media 1995-2008

CONGRESS 2009 - 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-10

  Cukier, Wendy ^a   Hodson, Jaigris ^b   Ryan, Peter M ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humanities; Internet; Technology social factors

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL FACTOR;

INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; PROFITABILITY; SEMANTICS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 74549125875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CONGRESS.2009.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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