Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 47-71

  Beer, David ^a   Burrows, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

archives; digital; methods; play; popular culture; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879524361     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276413476542     Document Type: Article

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