Mobile Phone Geographies

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1433-1447

  Pfaff, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; IDEOLOGY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77957343985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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