What is a research platform? Mapping methods, mobilities and subjectivities

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 302-318

  Kanngieser, Anja ^a   Neilson, Brett ^b   Rossiter, Ned ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

digital methods; infrastructure; labour; logistics; platform research; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898686406     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443714521089     Document Type: Article

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