Contextualizing experiences: Tracing the relationships between people and technologies in the social web

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 338-358

  Potts, Liza ^a   Jones, Dave ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

activity theory; actor network theory; context; experience design; participation; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959255291     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651911400839     Document Type: Article

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