Organizing technologies of vision: Making the invisible visible in media-laden observations

Information and Organization

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-78

  Styhre, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Matter; Media theory; Media laden vision; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249105351     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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