Science Blogging: Networks, Boundaries and Limitations

Science as Culture

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-72

  Riesch, Hauke ^a   Mendel, Jonathan ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activism; blogging; media; science communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892671781     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.801420     Document Type: Article

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