Inaugural: A necessary disenchantment: Myth, agency and injustice in a digital world

Sociological Review

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 880-897

  Couldry, Nick ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Hermeneutics; Media institutions; Myth; Social knowledge; Social media platforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911990250     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12158     Document Type: Article

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