Recycled writing: Assembling actor networks from reusable content

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-163

  Swarts, Jason ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Content management; Hybridity; Reusable writing; Single sourcing; Utterances

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951616764     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651909353307     Document Type: Article

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