Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clay Shirky, John Maynard Keynes, Mongrel

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

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