The managed prosumer: evolving knowledge strategies in the design of information infrastructures

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 795-813

  Johnson, Mikael ^a   Mozaffar, Hajar ^b   Campagnolo, Gian Marco ^c   Hyysalo, Sampsa ^a   Pollock, Neil ^b   Williams, Robin ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community management strategies; developer user relations; generification; knowledge infrastructures; science and technology studies; social distance; user categorizations; user innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901245020     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.830635     Document Type: Article

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