Consumers, creators or commentators?: Problems of audience and mission in the digital humanities

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 61-75

  Prescott, Andrew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

audiences; culture; digital; humanities; scholarship; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856925544     PISSN: 14740222     EISSN: 1741265X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474022211428215     Document Type: Article

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