The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 357-370

  Kallinikos, Jannis ^a   Aaltonen, Aleksi ^b   Marton, Attila ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archives; Change; Digital artifacts; Digital objects; Information platforms and infrastructures; Modularity; Reflexivity; Search engines

Indexed keywords

WEB CRAWLER;

ARCHIVES; CHANGE; DIGITAL ARTIFACTS; DIGITAL OBJECTS; INFORMATION PLATFORM; MODULARITY; REFLEXIVITY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84876837817     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.2.02     Document Type: Review

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