Innovation in Search of a Context: The Early History of Lexis.
Lexis, the first commercial online full-text legal information service, illustrates how the purpose of and the audience for a system were configured by distinct relevant social groups with different goals and perspectives. This article traces the early history of Lexis in light of the social constru...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 220 - 243 |
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University of Texas Press
2019
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