My social networking profile: Copy, resemblance, or simulacrum A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-115

  Kreps, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer user; Cultural and social; Human computer interaction; Human factors; Interpretivism; Poststructuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949767798     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2009.46     Document Type: Article

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