"A workers' inquiry 2.0": An ethnographic method for the study of produsage in social media contexts

TripleC

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 488-508

  Brown, Brian A ^a   Quan Haase, Anabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Digital ethnography; Flickr; Immaterial labour; Internet; Produsage; Research methods; Social media; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861745807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.390     Document Type: Article

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