Home is where the hub is? Wireless infrastructures and the nature of domestic culture in Australia

Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 310-325

  Jungnickel, Katrina ^a   Bell, Genevieve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 84870750569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch021     Document Type: Chapter

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