New actors and new media in technology discourse: An investigation of tech blogging;Les nouveaux acteurs et les nouveaux médias du discours sur la technologie: Le cas des blogs tech

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vaast, Emmanuelle ^a   Davidson, Elizabeth ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogging; Discourse community; Knowledge entrepreneurship; Organizing vision

Indexed keywords

BLOGGERS; BLOGGING; DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY; DISCOURSE COMMUNITY; KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP; NEW MEDIA; NEWS AGGREGATORS; WEBLOGS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGY;

BLOGS;

EID: 84870961930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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