Social technologies: Cross-disciplinary reflections on technologies in and from the social sciences

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-147

  Derksen, Maarten ^a   Vikkelsø, Signe ^b   Beaulieu, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

critical psychology; governmentality; Latour; sociotechnical; technologies of the self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858744930     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: 14617447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354311427593     Document Type: Article

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