Distributed agency and advanced technology: Or: How to analyze constellations of collective inter-agency

Agency without Actors?: New Approaches to Collective Action

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 89-112

  Rammert, Werner ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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