Profiling phorm: An autopoietic approach to the audience-as-commodity

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 310-322

  McStay, Andrew ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 82455249861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24908/ss.v8i3.4166     Document Type: Article

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