The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality

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The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality. / Shah, Nishant.
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. ed. / Gerard Goggin; Mark McLelland. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. p. 49-60.

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Shah, N 2017, The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality. in G Goggin & M McLelland (eds), The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 49-60. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748962

APA

Shah, N. (2017). The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality. In G. Goggin, & M. McLelland (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (pp. 49-60). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748962

Vancouver

Shah N. The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality. In Goggin G, McLelland M, editors, The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2017. p. 49-60 doi: 10.4324/9781315748962

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