Living in the mediatope: A multimethod study on the evolution of media technologies in the domestic environment

Information Society

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 330-345

  Quandt, Thorsten ^a   von Pape, Thilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domestication; Household study; Media devices; Media environments; Media lifecycle; Mediatopes; Observation study; Technology; Triangular model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957798535     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2010.511557     Document Type: Article

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