What are we doing?: Microblogging, the ordinary private, and the primacy of the present

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-136

  Coeckelbergh, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blogs; Ethics; Information media; Media; Microblogging; Philosophy; Technology; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993030097     PISSN: 1477996X     EISSN: 17588871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14779961111148640     Document Type: Article

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