Checking in at the urban playground: Digital geographies and electronic flâneurs

Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 169-194

  Berg, Martin ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-338-6.ch009     Document Type: Chapter

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