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SECTION 1: Structures of Governance and Exchange

INTERACTIONS OF THE TECHNICAL AND THE SOCIAL

Digital formations of the powerful and the powerless

Pages 455-478 | Received 14 Feb 2012, Accepted 15 Feb 2012, Published online: 29 Mar 2012

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