Talking about technology: The emergence of a new actor category through new media

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1069-1092

  Vaast, Emmanuelle ^a   Davidson, Elizabeth J ^b   Mattson, Thomas ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

A listers; Blogging; Coalescence; Discursive practices; Dispersion; Fragmentation; Identity; Legitimacy; Socio technical dynamics; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; DYNAMICS;

A-LISTERS; BLOGGING; DISCURSIVE PRACTICES; FRAGMENTATION; IDENTITY; LEGITIMACY; SOCIOTECHNICAL; WEB 2.0;

BLOGS;

EID: 84887465494     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.4.04     Document Type: Article

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