The crisis in the palm of our hand.
The rapid global proliferation of smartphones and their associated information infrastructures has been a defining feature of the past decade's global crises. Yet, while the digital is now a topic of keen interest for scholars working on virtually everything that constitutes the international, the s...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 1361 - 1380 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2024
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