Negotiability of technology and its limitations: The politics of App development

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1596-1618

  Mosemghvdlishvili, Lela ^a   Jansz, Jeroen ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Android; App; iOS; participation; smartphone; Social Shaping of Technology; software development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885076159     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.735252     Document Type: Article

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