The ‘Social Life of Methods’: A Critical Introduction

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3-21

  Savage, Mike ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

actor network theory; big data; digital devices; genealogy; methodology; performativity; transactional data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879514823     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276413486160     Document Type: Article

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