"Free as in sexist?" Free culture and the garden gap

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Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Reagle, Joseph ^a,b  

^a Communication Studies ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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