Technical capital and participatory inequality in edeliberation: An actor-network analysis

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1019-1039

  Zhang, Weiyu ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Actor network; eDeliberation; Inequality; Technical capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958542041     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2010.495988     Document Type: Article

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