Community as commodity: Social networking and transnational capitalism

Virtual Social Networks: Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer Sites

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 155-174

  Kreps, David ^a   Pearson, Erika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250888     Document Type: Chapter

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