A force for democracy - or information chaos?


	A force for democracy - or information chaos?

RayWatkins

9-7-2007 11:45 AM

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web 2.0, blogging

RayWatkins says:

The conference 'Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0' is organised by the ESRC e-Society Programme, the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) and the Department of Sociology, University of York, in collaboration with the Taylor and Francis Journal, Information, Communication & Society (iCS).

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