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Politics and media richness in World Wide Web representations of the former Yugoslavia.

Media-richness theory is applied to World Wide Web sites to demonstrate how Web-page designers are using hypertext markup language to shape conceptions of place and to provide competing visions of the events that have transpired in the former Yugoslavia. We argue that Web sites vary in their intera...

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Published in:Geographical Review Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 219 - 240
Main Authors: Jackson, Michele H., Purcell, Darren
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell April 1997
Subjects:
Web design
Former Yugoslav republics
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      ab: Media-richness theory is applied to World Wide Web sites to demonstrate how Web-page designers are using hypertext markup language to shape conceptions of place and to provide competing visions of the events that have transpired in the former Yugoslavia. We argue that Web sites vary in their interactivity, strategically, to reduce equivocality surrounding conceptions of space and territory. Media-richness theory as applied here allows the development of a heuristic to understand how Web pages communicate information about geographical entities and help to shape perceptions of place. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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