From online filter to web format: Articulating materiality and meaning in the early history of blogs

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 737-758

  Siles, Ignacio ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; articulation; closure; materiality; meaning; new media; software; stabilization; users; weblog

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052793912     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312711420190     Document Type: Article

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