Toward a theory of technique for online focus groups

Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 191-211

  Bosio, Albino Claudio ^a   Graffigna, Guendalina ^a   Lozza, Edoardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

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EID: 84898505911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-970-0.ch014     Document Type: Chapter

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