Introduction: Theorising media and practice

Theorising Media and Practice

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-32

  Postill, John ^a,b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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