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Mixing oil and water?: Ethnography versus experimental psychology in the study of computer-mediated communication

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CHI '93: Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/169059.169060

Published: 01 May 1993 Publication History

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Mixing oil and water?: Ethnography versus experimental psychology in the study of computer-mediated communication
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools

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CHI '93: Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 1993

547 pages

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DOI:10.1145/169059

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Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
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Univ. of Twente and Vrije Univ., The Netherlands
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Ted White
Univ. of Twente and Univ. of Ultrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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