Balancing the potential and problems of digital methods through action research: methodological reflections

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 172-186

  Kennedy, Helen ^a   Moss, Giles ^a   Birchall, Christopher ^a   Moshonas, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

action research; digital methods; public engagement; social data; social life of methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919846985     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.946434     Document Type: Article

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