Hacker science versus closed science: building environmental monitoring infrastructure

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 830-842

  Hemmi, Akiko ^a   Graham, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

citizen science; Fukushima; ICTs; sociology of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901230952     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.848918     Document Type: Article

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