Mobile ideas: Tracking a concept through time and space

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 529-545

  Allen Robertson, James ^a   Beer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bruce Sterling; Digital culture; Mobility of ideas; Spime; Tracking and tracing; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY; TRACKING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77957024036     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2010.510336     Document Type: Article

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