Mixing methods and theory to explore Web activity

Proceedings of the 4th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'12

Volumn volume, Issue , 2012, Pages 308-316

  Tinati, Ramine ^a   Halford, Susan ^a   Carr, Leslie ^a   Pope, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Methodology; Open Government Data; Web science

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELDS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; METHODOLOGY; MIXED METHOD; MIXING METHOD; OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA; SCIENCE METHODS; SOCIAL THEORY; SOCIOTECHNICAL; WEB ACTIVITIES; WEB SCIENCE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84869050235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2380718.2380758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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